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7->''"You've been wrong so many times that I'm not even going to say something is wrong anymore. I'm going to say that it's 'Dorian'."''
8-->-- '''Dr. Cox''' to John Dorian, ''Series/{{Scrubs}}''
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10Pop culture can be an interesting thing. Slang is in a constant state of flux, always changing. But for some things that stand the test of time, it will be adapted into our descriptive terminology.
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12[[TitleDrop Person as Verb]] is the practice of describing an action using a cultural reference--typically by naming a character known for doing the same thing. The name of the show/book/whatever, or the writer/actor/whatever, may also be used. Often the exact usage will be "They just pulled a... (character-name)" or "They did a... (character-name)."
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14This is best used when it comes to the more universally understood terms. For example, instead of saying "Bob fell down the chimney", someone will say "Bob pulled a Santa Claus". In other times, just to play with this trope, writers will put in the most [[ViewersAreGeniuses obscure reference]] to throw people off. A closely related use of this trope is to acknowledge the actual reference instead of just using it as a substitute, e.g. "So... is Santa Claus your hero?"
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16OrphanedEtymology comes from these sort of terms being transported into a setting where it doesn't make sense (e.g. a fantasy setting wouldn't make reference to a movie in our world).
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18This trope is widespread in RealLife, as the RealLife examples would suggest.
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20It also happens on this wiki itself (such as with "MacGyvering") -- we call this being a {{Trope Namer|s}}.
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22Related to BuffySpeak. Compare PopculturalOsmosis, TheCatchPhraseCatchesOn, {{Malaproper}}, MemeticMutation, ParodyDisplacement. StuckOnBandAidBrand is this trope in real life, applied to brand-name products. Also check out the various SelfReferentialHumor tropes.
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24!!Examples:
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26!!In-Universe
27[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
28* The English translation of one of the later volumes of ''Manga/LoveHina'' has Naru screaming at Keitaro "Don't go all [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji]] on me!", when our hero is being [[{{Emo}} mopier than usual]].
29* The ''Anime/LupinIIIPartII'' English translation would occasionally give [[{{Woolseyism}} some gems]] in the dialogue. After performing a daring but unnecessary car stunt, Lupin and Goemon looked at Jigen and asked what he was doing. With a sly grin he replied, "I was inspired by the spirit of Steve [=McQueen=]."
30* In ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'', Yukari, tired of teaching language (and unable to teach Math), drags everybody out into the cold for some P.E. The first game? Soccer. When Tomo asks Yukari if she even knows the rules, she says "I'm [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pele Pelé]]" (manga, ADV translation), "I'm [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mia_Hamm Mia Hamm]]" (anime, ADV translation), or "I'm [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidetoshi_Nakata Nakata]]" (anime, original). In any case, Tomo doesn't know what Yukari is talking about.
31* One chapter of ''Manga/Reborn2004'' has Tsuna's mother "pulling a Yamamoto". (Which is to cheerily come up with a mundane explanation for the obviously dangerous situation at hand.)
32* In ''Manga/NoMatterHowILookAtItItsYouGuysFaultImNotPopular'' the main character, Kuroki, attempts to stand out more in class by performing some wacky introductions. For her efforts, her name becomes synonymous in her class for doing something exceptionally poorly.
33* In ''Literature/NoGameNoLife'', whenever Stephanie screws up or she can't keep up with the conversation together with the siblings, that would prompt them to scold her for being such a "Steph", much to her chagrin.
34* ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'': In the English dub, when King Kai warns Vegeta that [[DestroyerDeity Beerus]] is on his way to Earth, he tells him "No fighting, no insulting, no Vegeta-ing of any kind!"
35* In ''Manga/PopTeamEpic'', one kid uses the term "getting a little [=PopTePiPic=]" (read: [[SelfDeprecation grouchy, rude, and irritable]]) to describe Popuko getting antsy when hungry.
36* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'': After Joseph has a bad experience with an Egyptian toilet, he says this in the English dub of the anime[[labelnote:Explanation]]The person he's referring to, Jean Pierre Polnareff, seems to be cursed when it comes to bathrooms to the point where it's pretty much become a RunningGag that he just waits until he gets to a hotel to do his business[[/labelnote]]:
37--> '''Joseph:''' I think I'll pull a Polnareff and wait 'til we get back to the hotel.
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40[[folder:Art]]
41* Creator/PieterBruegelTheElder: The eponym "Bruegelian" refers to scenes of medieval peasants partying, eating and drinking.
42* Creator/PeterPaulRubens: The adjective "Rubenesque" (referring to a BigBeautifulWoman) comes from the name of this Flemish artist who commonly painted nudes of larger women.
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45[[folder:Comic Books]]
46* A ''[[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica JLA]]'' comic had Green Lantern moan to himself, "Doctor Light pulled a Houdini on me."
47* In one issue of her comic book, ComicBook/{{Flare}} says of a script titled ''The Romance of Venus'': "I wouldn't want it to be like [[Series/WheelOfFortune Vanna]] in [[http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0095230/ that TV movie]], though."
48* In ''ComicBook/BoosterGold #1'', second series, the title character mentions he ''"pulled a Pete Ross"'' when he had to lose a football game on purpose.
49* Franchise/{{Batman}} is known for [[StealthHiBye vanishing abruptly while in the middle of a conversation]]. So when Nightwing, his first protege, does it to him, he smiles and mutters "Kid pulled a me".
50* ''The Adventures of Johnny Bunko'' involves Johnny's surname becoming a verb at his workplace for "to mess up". [[spoiler:A little career advice from a helpful fairy later turns it into something positive.]]
51* In one short story of ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'', Frank snarkily calls a goon trying to stab him as the guy "trying to pull an Creator/AnthonyPerkins", because of the over-head position of the knife a la ''Film/{{Psycho}}''.
52* ''ComicBook/RobynHood'': Because of Robyn's habit of impetuously throwing herself into dangerous situations, "pulling a Locksley" has become a slang phrase in the NYPD for "completely ignoring orders and jumping headfirst into danger."
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55[[folder:Comic Strips]]
56* In ''ComicStrip/DykesToWatchOutFor'' Sydney and Mo at their very first meeting discuss a lesbian poet. Mo, who has a crush on her, passionately defends her, telling Sydney to look below the surface, but Sydney is typically dismissive: "If I looked below her surface, you know what I'd see? Nothing. Zip. The void. One big Foucauldian lacuna." The word ''Foucauldian'' refers to French philosopher Michel Foucault.
57* One ''ComicStrip/BigNate'' strip sees Teddy showing the fifty-two he got on a math test to Francis, who says that he thought only Nate got scores that low. The two quickly start saying that Teddy "Nated" it. Cut to Nate following them:
58--> '''Nate:''' [[LampshadedTrope I've become a verb]].
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61[[folder:Fan Works]]
62* In ''Fanfic/{{Radiance}}'', the sequel of ''Fanfic/{{Luminosity}}'', Maggie and Gianna are discussing the youngest possible legal age to turn someone into a vampire. Which is 14 years old. And they mention that they won't turn their daughter that young unless little Molly pulls an Ilario and gets cancer. Ilario was Gianna's brother who was saved from certain death by cancer via and EmergencyTransformation into a vampire.
63* PlayedWith in ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'' -- the school psychiatrist Dr. Sam describes Calvin as "Calvinish" (an ''adjective'').
64* In the ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' fanfic community, {{fanon}} especially, something blowing up or exploding is known as 'Wheeljack' and 'Pulling a Wheeljack', such as "Dude, your computer just pulled a Wheeljack."
65** In the fanfic ''Fanfic/AChildShallLeadThemTransformers'' the term "pulling a [[TheStarscream Starscream]]" comes up on one occasion.
66* ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality'', Professor Flitwick rants at Harry and Dumbledore that if there are any other odd plans or plots that go wrong in spectacular fashion again (ItsALongStory), then Flitwick would kick Harry out of Ravenclaw and he could go to Gryffindor where all of the Dumbledoring belonged.
67* From ''Fanfic/NoGodsOnlyGuns'', a ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' and ''Franchise/MassEffect'' FusionFic: "[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill Tor]][[StuffBlowingUp gue'd]]" and "[[CurbStompBattle Urdnot'd]]".
68* In ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Infinity}}'', to "pull a Chrono" means [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique doing something very strenuously]] and then [[PostVictoryCollapse faint afterwards.]] [[DeadpanSnarker Vita]] suggested to rename it into "pull a [[HonorBeforeReason Takamachi]]", but then corrected herself that [[TheDeterminator Nanoha Takamachi]] [[HeroicWillpower would just shrug it off and keep moving.]]
69* In "Fanfic/TheUniverseDoesntCheat" Admiral Arkad wonders if Eleya will "pull a Kirk", in reference to [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan James T. Kirk having cheated]] to win the ''KobayashiMaru''. [[spoiler:[[NotSoSimilar She doesn't]] (even when she does the absolute craziest things you can pull off with a starship to try to win anyway). The TitleDrop happens when she effectively defends herself in the aftermath debriefing by pointing out [[KillerGameMaster how hard]] (and [[WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief unfeasible]] by InUniverse real-life physics) the computer ''[[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard did]]''.]]
70* In ''Fanfic/KingdomCrossovers'', Zim's various screw-ups were so notorious that "I pulled a Zim" was a common saying on Irk.
71* ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'': From [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/dungeon-keeper-ami-sailor-moon-dungeon-keeper-story-only-thread.30066/page-5#post-6355781 Disagreements]], referencing the Dark God of Brute Force, Azzathra:
72--> If at first you don't succeed, use a bigger army. How very Azzathra of you, Matthia.
73* Fans of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' use the term "Mami-ing" or getting "Mami'd" (''Mamiru'') to refer to a character that had [[spoiler:gotten her head chomped off]]. Among western fans, the definition was expanded to mean "a character introduced as a critical member of the cast that [[spoiler:[[AnyoneCanDie dies early on]] to set the tone for the series]]".
74* In ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'', Pikachu calls kidnapping someone and trapping them in a basement or similarly enclosed location for dubious and likely sexual purposes to "Jessebelle" them, in reference to James' old fiancée.
75* ''Fanfic/WhiteSheepRWBY'': Yang's mother Raven [[ParentalAbandonment abandoned her as a baby]], leaving her with her father. So when Yang's boyfriend impregnates her and then runs off with her sister ([[ItMakesSenseInContext it's less horrible in context]]) Yang declares "No man is going to pull a Raven on me!" and chases after him.
76* ''Fanfic/ARabbitAmongWolves'': [[PosthumousCharacter Adam]] was such [[BadBoss a harsh employer]], "Adam" is used by his minions to describe when he doled out very harsh punishments. They also use "Adam" when describing his incredibly violent acts of terrorism.
77* ''Fanfic/ADiplomaticVisit'': As Swift-Pad reveals, a person "simply doing what they thought was right" is known as "a John move", after a griffon king who did the same without thinking it through and wound up effectively ruining his nation.
78* In ''Fanfic/HowTheLightGetsIn'', Dean calls [[RiseFromYourGrave digging yourself out of your own grave]] "pulling a [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]".
79* In ''Fanfic/AndersonQuestKillingVampiresAndWerewolvesAndLeprechuans'', members of the School of Mensis were so utterly fed up with their [[BunglingInventor most successful and least useful member]], [[Franchise/{{Discworld}} Bergholt Stuttley Johnson]], his name became a byword for catastrophically bungling, as in "Be careful, don't Johnson it."
80* [[Literature/HighSchoolDXD Freed Sellzen]] escaping using a flashbang became such a common occurrence in ''Fanfic/MarriageOfHeavenAndHell'' that Makoto at one point begins referring to escaping in a flash of light as "pulling a Freed Sellzen."
81* The narration of ''Fanfic/ManehattansLoneGuardian'' refers to Leviathan [[VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom Foot Diving]] a swimming pool to splash a random pony as the pool being [[Characters/DoctorDoom "Dr. Doomed"]].
82* ''Fanfic/MomentaryWeakness'': Milly is Mythra's daughter, and is [[GenerationXerox identical to her mother]]. When she jumps through a window to help her sister, everyone notes that she's "pulling a Mythra again."
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85[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
86* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBadGuys2022'', after their first "heist for good" ends in disaster, Mr. Wolf tries to talk the Governor into giving the gang a second chance by charming her. Mr. Shark refers to this as "the full [[Creator/GeorgeClooney Clooney]]".
87* In ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'', people who find out about Ralph's game-jumping accuse him of "going Turbo". It turns out to refer to a previous video game character named Turbo who once pulled the same stunt and got two games shut down (for being "out of order"- the one Turbo left had lost its PlayerCharacter, and the one he entered got a gameplay disrupting glitch) in the process. [[spoiler:The BigBad of the movie, King Candy, turns out to be none other than Turbo himself.]]
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90[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
91* ''Film/TheFugitive'' with Creator/TommyLeeJones: "He did a Literature/PeterPan right off this dam here." Earlier, of a train driver: "Bet he did a Casey Jones."
92* In ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'', Neo was "doing his Franchise/{{Superman}} [[{{Flight}} thing]]."
93* In ''Film/TwelveMonkeys'', Creator/BruceWillis' character is referred to as having "pulled a Houdini." He was a time traveler, and got pulled back out of impossible-to-escape restraints.
94* The two protagonists of ''Film/{{Gerry}}'' are named Gerry and Jerry. It becomes clear that in the personal argot of their friendship, a "Gerry" has come to mean an incident of getting turned around and hopelessly lost somewhere, and that the film's title actually refers to this term.
95* In ''Film/ManOfTheHouse'', a pair of the cheerleaders are being dragged back to the house after starting to get in a barfight, and complains about being 'rescued' by saying "I was about to go all [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]] on his ass."
96* In ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'' there's a reference to Clarence having "pulled a Brodie" -- period slang for jumping off a bridge, after New York bridge-jumper Steve Brodie.
97* In ''Film/TheSorcerersApprentice'', Dave spills water on his pants after witnessing the confrontation between Baltazaar and Horvath and everyone believes that he wet himself. Even ten years later, kids in grade school still call having a nervous breakdown "pulling a Dave Stutler."
98* Referenced in ''Film/StickIt'', when Haley talks about how skills get named after gymnasts (this is TruthInTelevision; see Sports folder).
99-->'''Haley:''' The only reason I'm doing these tricks is because somebody somewhere said "I don't care if this is nuts, and I don't care if it hurts. I'm doing it. I'm gonna climb this insanely high mountain. Watch me". And when you're the first to climb a new mountain in gymnastics, they name it after you. A Geinger. A Rulfova. A Chusovitina. A Shaposhnikova. They all rocked. And we salute you.
100* In ''Film/TheGamersDorknessRising'', when Flynn is [[BackFromTheDead resurrected]], Lodge (the ''GameMaster'') notes that "Flynn pulls a [[Literature/TheBible Lazarus]]."
101* In ''Film/FunWithDickAndJane'', when Dick meets with people who he thinks want to give him a job interview [[spoiler: but instead just want to laugh at him]] they say that what he appeared to have done to lose company money is what they call "pulling a Dick".
102* In ''Film/{{Kingpin}}'', protagonist Roy Munson is chagrined to learn that "getting Munsoned" has come to mean being screwed over and abandoned after his past encounter with an unscrupulous rival bowler.
103* In ''Film/ZombielandDoubleTap'', according to Reno "Murraying" is the term for killing a human after mistaking them for a zombie.
104* In ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'', Doctor Strange tells Spider-Man and his friends that they need to "''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' this shit", an informal way of saying that the three teenagers need to catch all the meddling villains.
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107[[folder:Literature]]
108* At the end of Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'', it's said that "to rip off a Carrie" passed into teen slang, meaning "to commit arson".
109** [[TruthInTelevision Life Imitates Art]], but twisted: "Pulling a Carrie," or "going Carrie on [something]," actually did become synonymous with someone acting crazy after being humiliated. This one's become so well-travelled that it even appears in the ''Manga/HisAndHerCircumstances'' manga as a visual-only metaphor for someone snapping under the strain of having perfectionist, controlling parents.
110** Oddly enough, to "Carrie someone" also refers to the act of inflicting such humiliation on the person rather than their act of retaliation. For example, in an episode of ''Series/ThirtyRock'', Liz's former high school friends attempt to dump chocolate on her head and refer to it as "Carrie-ing her", in reference to the pivotal part in ''Carrie'' where the bullies dumped pig's blood on Carrie's head to humiliate her.
111** This one even affected [[BabyNameTrendStarter the popularity of "Carrie" as a given name]]. In the first half of TheSeventies, it was quickly rising in popularity as a name for baby girls, but after [[Film/Carrie1976 the film adaptation]] came out in 1976, it [[https://www.behindthename.com/name/carrie/top collapsed just as quickly]] due to the association.
112* In the Creator/MegCabot novel ''How to Be Popular,'' the phrase "Don't pull a Steph Landry" is the basis for the entire plot.
113* Played with in ''Literature/DaveBarrySleptHere'', describing the occasion of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on the first July Fourth ([[RunningGag October 8]], 1776): "The members took turns lighting sparklers and signing their John Hancocks to the Declaration, with one prankster even going so far as to actually write '[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hancock John Hancock]].'"
114** In a column, he also stated that he was not ''at all'' bitter that the Phillip Morris tobacco company launched an ad campaign whose main character was named Dave.
115--->Because Geoffrey C. Bible is real, you should not use the name "Geoffrey C. Bible" in a derogatory way. You should not, for example, say, "Darn it! The dog made Geoffrey C. Bible on the carpet again!" Nor should you permit your youngsters to use expressions such as "Tommy stuck his finger way up into his nose and pulled out a big old Geoffrey C. Bible!" Nor should you say that a person caught engaging in an unnatural act of romance with a sheep was "doing the Geoffrey C. Bible." That would be wrong.
116* The first modern novel, ''Literature/DonQuixote'', inspired the adjective "quixotic", which means to be an ordinary person with grandiose or impossible dreams. However, at least one dictionary uses "quixote" as a lower-case noun with the same connotation. "He's such a quixote."
117* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'': "One more lesson like that and I just might [[AccidentalInnuendo do a Weasley."]] (After [[spoiler:Fred and George drop out in spectacular fashion.]])
118* Done rather cruelly in ''Literature/FlowersForAlgernon'': Pulling a "Charlie Gordon" is making a screw-up. Charlie himself doesn't get it in the moment, since the guy in question lost somebody's packages and Charlie never did that, but realizes later in the book what it actually means.
119* From one of the ''Literature/{{Dinotopia}}'' books, any instance of AintNoRule or LoopholeAbuse is referred to as "Pulling an Andrew", after said Andrew wins an obstacle course race against a ''far'' more athletic dinosaur by simple virtue of ignoring the obstacles and running down the straightaway between the courses.
120* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'':
121** Jim Butcher says on [[http://www.cipher-wotr.com/forum/showthread.php?t=348 this page]] about writing the middle of a novel: "It lurks between the beginning of your book and the exciting conclusion, and its mission in life is to [[Literature/TheNeverendingStory Atreyu you right down into the yucky, mucky mire]] in order to prevent you from ever actually finishing." The mire was a swamp in the middle of the book that would suck in and trap anyone like a tar pit unless they had a certain frame of mind.
122** Harry Dresden in the novels, many times. Like the time he tosses a stake to Inari and tells her to "make like Buffy."
123** "To Dresden" means accidentally causing severe property damage, in-universe.
124* Towards the end of Rob Grant's ''Colony'', the main character comes up with a plan to save the ship that everyone comes to know as "The Morton Maneuvre." He however believes that if the plan fails, then the term "Morton Maneuvre" will forever be associated with spectacular failures such as the Charge Of The Light Brigade and the Hindenburg (which he reckons should have been called the Mortonburg).
125* In ''The View from Saturday'', Luke Potter is such a genius that the whole school is convinced he will do something incredible that his name will come to be associated with.
126--> ''Half the population of Epiphany is convinced that Luke Potter will become so famous that his name will become a noun [[StuckOnBandAidBrand like Kleenex or Coke]]. The other half is convinced that Luke Potter will become a verb like Xerox or fax. And if someday, someone says, "Luke me that information, please," that information will be organized, memorized, and set to music.''
127* ''Literature/LittleGreenMen'' has a footnote explaining what the neologism "Bobbitting" means.
128* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novels, Ankh-Morpork slang for "mad" is "completely [[TalkativeLoon Bursar]]". Also mad, as in angry, is referred to as going Librarian (pun on 'going ape', as he's an orang-utan). More rarely, properties where a certain [[GeniusDitz genius idiot]] worked on are said to have been [[BunglingInventor Johnsoned]].
129* In Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's short story "Literature/Metzengerstein," it is said that the eponymous baron's behavior "out-Heroded Herod," a phrase which, as mentioned above, originated in Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}.'' Poe also used that exact turn of phrase in "Literature/WilliamWilson" and "Literature/TheMasqueOfTheRedDeath".
130* In ''Literature/TheRedBadgeOfCourage'', Henry, after running away from a battle, fears that his name will become "a slang phrase" for cowardice.
131* In ''Literature/TheIliad'', Apollo, while in the guise of one of Hector's friends, tries to rile him up by accusing him of being "in fight a Paris".
132* Literature/{{Spenser}}, in ''Hush Money'', refers to an apparent suicide jumper as "doing a Brodie", an old slang term.
133* In ''Literature/TheHorseAndHisBoy'' it's mentioned near the end that after the events in the story, and Rabadash's later death, the phrase "a second Rabadash" enters the vocabulary of Calormen as an insult towards foolish schoolboys.
134* In ''Literature/ReadyPlayerOne'', an anecdote early in the novel mentions a player named Pendergast who announces to the media what a particular clue means for a small amount of fame. Since The Hunt is a combination scavenger hunt and riddle, this is an incredibly bad idea, which gets immortalized by the phrase "pulling a Pendergast."
135* In ''Literature/ThePatchworkGirl'' by Creator/LarryNiven, there's a casual reference to the Moon not having money for an extra satellite because the money for it was 'proxmired' from their budget allocation. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Proxmire Senator Proxmire]] was a well-known opponent of the space program, [[TakeThat earning him the ire]] of several famous sci-fi writers including Niven.
136* ''Literature/FamilySkeletonMysteries'': Late in book 1, Georgia tells Sid she's figured out why he didn't want to tell Madison about himself - he was afraid she'd "pull a Deborah" (that is, ignore him and pretend he didn't exist), and he didn't think he could cope with that.
137* In ''[[Literature/BigNate Big Nate In the Zone]]'', Nate inadvertently ignites a school-wide fad after doodling all over his sneakers. As the other kids begin picking up on it, they begin saying that they "Nated" their shoes.
138* ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'' novels written by Creator/MichaelStackpole have given rise to "The Stackpole Effect" or "Stackpoling" thanks to his depiction of 'Mechs with breached engines GoingCritical.
139* ''Literature/InCryptid'' has several:
140** Because Antimony reads a lot of comics, she refers to one of [[{{Roofhopping}} Verity]]'s moves as "pulling a [[Comicbook/SpiderMan Gwen Stacy]]".
141** Antimony describes herself as not wanting to Creator/DrewBarrymore herself in a reference to ''Film/NeverBeenKissed''.
142** Sarah mentions Artie talking her down from destroying the world as "[[Literature/GoodOmens very Crowley talking down Aziraphale before the Apocalypse]]".
143** "Maybe we accidentally pulled a [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Dorothy]] and [[ItMakesSenseInContext dropped a university campus on somebody's sister]]."
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146[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
147* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' does this all the time. Clark was beaten up badly after losing his powers and Chloe remarked, "You said it was bad but not ''Film/RagingBull'' bad."
148** This show, and Chloe's character in particular, do this a lot. Lois picked up the habit when she began trying to be a journalist. When the two talk it's crazy.
149* ''Series/{{Peep Show}}'' has this double whammy:
150-->'''Mark's Dad''': [''spills a bit of his drink''] Oh, for fudge's sake!\
151'''Mark''': It's OK, Dad, the carpet's seen worse.\
152'''Sarah''': You Jezzed the carpet just like you Jezzed the directions, Dad!\
153'''Jez''': Erm, Jezzed?\
154'''Mark's Mum''': We got it from Mark, didn't we, Mark?\
155'''Jez''': Oh, right. So, uh... it's when you...\
156'''Mark's Mum''': When you get something wrong - he Jezzed it.\
157'''Mark's Dad''': Total balls-up, a real Jezzing.\
158'''Jez''': Right. Yeah. Yeah, that is funny. Sort of a bit like being famous.\
159[''Doorbell rings'']\
160'''Jez''': I'll go and see who that is. Let's hope I don't Jez it, or do a big Mark in my pants.
161* ''Series/{{Community}}'' has something similar to the ''Series/PeepShow'' example above:
162** When Britta got the group's personality tests back with weird results in the episode "[[Recap/CommunityS3E05HorrorFictionInSevenSpookySteps Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps]]":
163--->'''Jeff''': You probably just Britta'd the results somehow.\
164'''Britta''': No, I double-checked them... wait, are people using my name to mean "make a small mistake"?\
165'''Jeff''': (Shifty-eyed) ...[[SureLetsGoWithThat yes]].
166** Later in the same episode:
167--->'''Britta''': We learned an important lesson tonight. We should never make the "Britta" of "Britta-ing" each other's feelings.\
168'''Pierce''': You're using it wrong!\
169'''Jeff''': Wow. You Britta'd "Britta'd".\
170'''Abed''': Yeah, way to pull an Abed.\
171'''Shirley''': I don't get it.\
172'''Jeff''': Shirley, don't Pierce.\
173'''Pierce''': I don't get it.
174** Eventually deconstructed in "Herstory of Dance", where Pierce ([[EveryoneHasStandards of all people]]) [[WhatTheHellHero calls Jeff out on this]], pointing out that using a friend's name as a synonym for failure is actually an ''awful'' thing to do. Especially given how frequently and gleefully Jeff does it.
175** Another episode had Jeff feel threatened by a classmate who is taking attention away from him. He starts obsessively researching this new rival, manically spouting his theories to the others, who point out that he's [[Creator/JeffGoldblum "Goldbluming"]].
176*** Jeff met this rival in pottery class, where the teacher has a rule against "Film/{{Ghost|1990}}ing" that will get anyone kicked out of the class (because he's seen every variant of it done over and over again and he's just ''not'' going to put up with it anymore)
177** Wingering is also used to describe a deep and emotional speech
178* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}''
179** When Elliot's sorority sister [[PercussiveMaintenance hit the Jukebox to start it back up]]: "Hey, I'm the [[Series/HappyDays Fonz]]."
180** J.D. also once tells Turk angrily that he [[Series/TheBradyBunch Marcia Brady]]'d his ass. Amusingly enough, Turk's confusion stems not from his not getting the reference, but rather from disbelief that the clinic would choose J.D. over Turk.
181--->'''J.D.''': Well, maybe that's because I found out you stole a hundred dollars from me and I Marcia Brady-ied your ass.\
182'''Turk''': What?\
183'''JD''': You know, when Marcia was working at the ice cream shop and she got Jan a job and they liked Jan better, so they fired Marcia.\
184'''Turk''': Yeah, "Marcia Gets Creamed", season 5, episode 3. Don't ever question me on "The Bunch". Besides, there's no way they liked you better than me.
185** They detailed the formation of one of these when Dr. Cox got so frustrated with J.D. that he decided to substitute the word "wrong" with "Dorian." The staff soon caught onto the new phrase, which annoyed J.D. to no end. But later J.D. caught himself saying, "Dorian! ...Oh, great, [[GotMeDoingIt now I'm saying it]]!"
186** Doug Murphy is autoreferencial in this. He tells a coroner he probably knows what mistake a doctor made that caused a patient to die, then lays out a rather specific scenario. When the coroner asks if Doug has seen such a case before, he responds by scoffing and saying "Upstairs they call that a 'Doug'".
187* In ''Series/{{Being Human|US}}'', "Sally" is being used as a verb for "don't screw this up" by her old friend Zoe.
188-->'''Sally:''' ''(distraught)'' You use my name as a verb?
189* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''
190** Xander remarked on "People going all ''Series/{{Felicity}}'' with [[ImportantHaircut their hair]]."
191** "The dummy tells us he's a demon hunter.... He takes off, and now there's a brain. Does anybody else feel like they've been [[Film/TheUsualSuspects Keyser Sozed]]?"
192** When Willow is going on her RoaringRampageOfRevenge, Andrew angrily chews out the others for not helping him and Jonathan "before [[Franchise/StarWars Darth]] Rosenberg goes [[ComicBook/JeanGrey Dark Phoenix]] on our asses!"
193** Then when she goes back to her senses and has a meeting with Giles, we have this bit:
194--->'''Willow''': When you brought me here I thought it was to kill me, or to lock me in some mystical dungeon for all eternity, or with the torture, but instead you go all [[Literature/HarryPotter Dumbledore]] on me.
195** "Looks like she pulled a [[ComicBook/TheFlash Barry Allen]] on us. Jay Garrick? Wally We--She moved real fast. Never mind."
196** One entire episode revolved around the idea of Xander being [[Creator/MarxBrothers "the Zeppo"]] - most useless and overlooked - of the gang.
197** In "The Pack", when Giles suggests that Xander's strange behavior may have a mundane explanation, Buffy replies, "I can't believe that you of all people are trying to [[Series/TheXFiles Scully]] me!"
198** In "School Hard", when [[BadAssDecay pre-Decayed]] Spike first confronts Angel about having a soul: "You were [[OldMaster my Yoda]], man!"
199** In "New Moon Rising", the normally BookDumb Buffy threatens to "pull a [[WilliamTelling William Burroughs]]" on somebody. Nobody gets it.
200--->'''Buffy:''' Was I the only one awake in English class that day? I'll. Kill. Him.
201** In a prom episode, Buffy makes a comment about stopping someone from "pulling a [[Creator/StephenKing Carrie]] on the prom".
202* ''Series/{{Angel}}'':
203** Related to the above example, after Angel has tried to track down a girl with telekinetic powers Cordelia asks him over the phone "Did she Carrie you?". This understandably causes confusion.
204* ''Series/TheXFiles''
205** In "The Erlenmeyer Flask", Mulder snaps at Deep Throat to "just cut the Obi-Wan Kenobi crap".
206** In "Hollywood AD", a movie based on Mulder and Scully's case is made, and one CompositeCharacter based on the in-universe villains O'Fallon and Cigarette Smoking Man is known as "Cigarette-Smoking Pontiff". Mulder expresses concern that in the Hollywood version of the story, everything becomes oversimplified and trivialized and '''Cigarette-Smoking-Pontifficized'''.
207* Sawyer and Hurley on ''Series/{{Lost}}'' regularly supply such references. In "Eggtown," Kate tricks Hurley into a YouJustToldMe revelation, to which Hurley replies, "You just WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'ed me, didn't you?"
208* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
209** In the episode "Simon Said", a character uses a mind control on Dean Winchester to take his [[CoolCar beloved 1967 Chevy Impala]] for a spin. Dean then calls Sam and says, "He full-on [[JediMindTrick Obi-Wan-ed]] Me!"
210** In the second season premiere, Dean is stuck in an out-of-body experience where he can't touch or affect anything around him. So he watches Sam and their father get into an argument, and Dean gets really angry at them for it, so he knocks a glass of water onto the floor. His father and brother stop and stare, and Dean says, with a look of shock on his face, "I full-on [[Film/Ghost1990 Swayze-ed]] that mother."
211* Frequently {{lampshade|Hanging}}d on ''Series/{{Bones}}''. When someone makes a witty line, pop-culture challenged Brennan says "I don't know what that means." It's pretty much a RunningGag--Brennan says it regularly, sometimes other characters will pre-empt her with "We know you don't know what that means", and occasionally subverted when she ''does'' get one.
212-->'''Booth''': Sure, I'm [[Series/TheXFiles Mulder and you're Scully.]]
213-->'''Brennan''': I don't know what that means.
214** Then there’s Wendell in one episode saying “I’m about to Brennanize you” before starting an anthropological explanation.
215* Police procedurals in general seem to like to use "pulled a Louganis" as a euphemism for someone taking a suicidal leap; both ''Series/{{CSI}}'' and ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' have used it, and ''Series/VeronicaMars'' used it in reference to the previous season's killer leaping off the roof of the hotel Logan lives at.
216* ''Series/{{Farscape}}''. John Crichton does this all the time. Seeing as he's a long way from Earth, naturally no-one understands a word he's talking about, though the crew of Moya seem to get the general gist after a while.
217* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'':
218** In episode "Darmok", the entire language of the alien race works this way, making communication impossible with those who don't know the references. The example they give is [[Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet "Juliet on the balcony"]] representing a declaration of love; unless you know the name and the scene, it means nothing. Picard is able to decipher just one thing -- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra means two former [[FireForgedFriendship warriors who became friends facing a shared danger]].[[note]]Temba, his arms wide! Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra. Which becomes Dathon and Picard at El Adril. Dathon at Tanagra. Picard at Tanagra. Rai and Jiri at Lunga. Kadir beneath Mometah. Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra. Dathon and Picard at El Adrel. The Beast of El Adrel. Kailash when it rises. Uzani, his army; Shaka when the walls fell. Kiazi's children, their faces wet. Picard at El Adrel. Sokath, his eyes uncovered. Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra. Darmok and Jalad on the ocean.[[/note]]
219** There is the Picard Maneuver, a tactic for sneak attacks against ships lacking FTL sensors. Engage your warp drive and pop in right next to them - they'll never see you coming!
220*** More accurately, you use the Warp drive to move faster than the light reflected off the ship. Depending on the disparity of distances, it appears as if there are two of the same ship as a result, but this only lasts so long depending on how much distance there is to work with.
221** There's a second Picard Maneuver, named after the aforementioned in-universe one, used by production staff and fans. The sharp tug on the bottom of his uniform shirt was dubbed "The Picard Maneuver".
222** Fans have named actor Jonathan Frakes' peculiar method of sitting in a chair (approaching from behind and swinging one leg over the back) "The Riker Maneuver."
223* This trope is a defining feature of the main character in ''Series/{{Psych}}'', who frequently uses references to obscure 80's pop-culture, possibly in order to keep the show--which could easily become dangerously serious in light of its subject matter--relatively light and humorous.
224** From "Poker? I barely know her!":
225---> '''Shawn:''' That's very Cameron Frye of you.
226* In ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', after Claire beats up someone she thought was trying to attack her, the attacker says "don't go all Series/{{Buffy|TheVampireSlayer}} on us!"
227* ''Series/{{Forever|2014}}'': When Medical Examiner Henry is on leave and away from the OCME for too long, and starts diagnosing what killed a rat in his basement lab, an exasperated Abe tells him to go back to work and quit "[[Literature/SherlockHolmes Sherlocking]] rats."
228* ''Series/{{Fringe}}'' has the following, during a discussion about a man who apparently disappeared into thin air:
229--> '''Olivia:''' The man was clever enough to ''Franchise/StarTrek'' himself out of a maximum security German prison.
230* ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond'' episode where Ray tapes over his wedding video; everyone jokes that this monumental blunder is going to be known as "pulling a Ray Barone".
231* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'':
232** For an episode, people started using "Ted out" (to overthink) and "Ted up" (to overthink with disastrous consequences).
233--->'''Ted''': [[LampshadeHanging Did you just use my name as a verb?]]
234** A later episode had characters referring to the act of repelling a potential partner with an admission of love as a "Mosby".
235** Marshall once uses the term "Lily all over the place" to refer to making impulsive decisions out of panic.
236** When Marshall is [[AccidentalPervert caught inside the ladies' room]], Carl the bartender talks about "pulling a Marshall Eriksen". Marshall tries to do the same, using Carl's name to mean someone who jumps to conclusions, but is derailed when he doesn't know Carl's last name.
237* Person as ''adjective'' in ''Series/{{NUMB3RS}}''. Apparently, sometimes the only way to describe [[AbsentMindedProfessor Larry]] is as himself.
238-->'''Charlie''':Hey, hey, don't get all Fleinhardt on me.\
239'''Larry''': Fleinhardt? Since when did my last name become a predicate adjective?\
240'''Charlie''': Since your students started using it that way.
241** A fully straight example occurs in a later episode, when Charlie tells Larry, who is employing a little MathematiciansAnswer, to "Stop trying to Fleinhardt your way around answering me."
242* On ''Series/{{Cheers}}'', Frasier was [[RunawayBride jilted at the altar]] during a lavish ceremony in Italy. When he returns, he claims that Italian slang now calls kicking an own-goal (in soccer) "doing a Frasier", but knocking yourself out on the goalpost while doing so is "doing a Frasier Crane".
243** At least once the gang used "Clavin" to mean something bad, as in "Last one there's a Clavin!" [[[CaptainObvious cf Rotten Egg.]]] Rather than being upset with this, Cliff Clavin participated, assuring the others "I'm not going to be the Clavin this time!" (quotes paraphrased). When Diane was the last one out, she whined, "I'm always the Clavin!"
244** In the last season episode where Carla's daughter, Sarafina, is getting married, Sarafina tells her she's pregnant (thus why they're getting married). When Carla started to ask about her health, Sarafina said she "hasn't had to Clavin" (throw up).
245* During one particular episode of ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'', the term "Michael" becomes used to refer to chickening out (generally regarding something wildly illegal):
246-->'''George Sr.''': Hey don't go all Michael on me here.\
247'''GOB''': Hey, nobody's going all Michael on anyone.
248* From ''[[Series/BlackAdder Blackadder II]]'':
249-->'''Edmund Blackadder:''' Do people call me "privvy breath?!"\
250'''Baldrick:''' Yeah! The ones that like you.\
251'''Blackadder:''' Am I then...not popular?\
252'''Baldrick:''' Well, put it this way: when people slip in what dogs have left in the street, they do tend to say "Whoops, I've trod in an Edmund."
253* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'':
254** The episode "He Thought He Could" has Al Bundy attempt to put back away overdue library book without officially returning it so he won't have to pay a late fee. He ends up being exposed in a very public and humiliating way. At the very end of the episode, a kid catches his friend doing the same thing and remarks "Hey, don't Bundy that book!"
255** The episode "Bud Hits the Books" has Bud getting caught pleasuring himself in the school library. Al's NO MA'AM buddies immediately coin the term "Doing the Bundy" as a euphemism for masturbating in a public place, then share some of the places they "did the Bundy."
256** In the episode where Bud officially becomes a BasementDweller, Al had decided that Bud was old enough to live on his own, and he tried to kick him out the second he arrived home from work. Peg tries to stand up for Bud, but he says that even though Al deserved to be "Menendez-ed"[[note]]the Menendez Brothers were arrested for their murder of their wealthy parents, and the case was sensationalized by the media[[/note]] he was right, and should move out on his own.
257* An in-universe example is found in ''Series/{{The Office|US}}'' when Andy tries convincing Michael that the employees describe anyone who screws something up horribly as having "Schruted" it.
258* ''Series/ThirtyRock'':
259** Liz Lemon, of course, gets hits with this.
260--->'''Jack''': I've Lemoned the situation with Nancy!\
261'''Liz Lemon''': That's not a thing people are saying now, is it? Lemoned. Doing it awesome.
262** ''30 Rock'' also had a episode centered around Jack "Reaganing", or going twenty four hours without making a mistake. Named, of course, after UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan. Bonus points for Jack eating jelly beans while Reaganing.
263** There is also an episode centered around both Jack's and Liz' reactions to extreme hilarity or excitement. Jack "jacks" which refers to getting so excited that you vomit. Liz "lizzes" which is also a portmanteau of laugh and whiz.
264** Another episode featured a classical example where Jack bases his relationship strategy on Fabius Maximus and at the end of the episode this strategy is countered by one based on Hannibal. Jack says she "Hannibaled" his "Fabius."
265** And yet another episode had a plot to humiliate Liz at her high-school reunion being called an attempt to "Literature/{{Carrie}}" her.
266** A variation on this trope occurs in an episode featuring former trope-namer Music/WeirdAlYankovic, in which Jenna releases a heartfelt song that gets parodied by him. Furious, she sets out to write an unparodiable song that ends up being full of fart jokes and sounding a lot like a Weird Al number - he retaliates by releasing an inspirational, patriotic parody with serious lyrics.
267--->'''Jenna''': He reversed the parody! He Normal Al'd us!
268* The pilot episode of ''Series/StargateSG1'', also an ActorAllusion as Carter is talking to O'Neill at the time:
269--> '''Carter:''' It took us fifteen years and three supercomputers to Series/{{MacGyver|1985}} a system for the gate on Earth.
270* Referenced in a ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' episode, in which [[InsufferableGenius McKay]], after one request for an impossible super-sciencey solution too many, protests that he is not [=MacGyver=].
271* In ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'', Charlie does this to his own inventions. A "Charlie One-Two" involves someone throwing himself in front of a car and then blackmailing the driver. A "Grilled Charlie" is a questionable grilled sandwich containing butter, peanut butter, chocolate and cheese.
272* ''Series/{{Friends}}'' had Monica's mother's use of the phrase "Pulling a Monica" to describe awkward mistakes (such as in the episode mentioned, Monica loses one of her false nails in one of the mini-quiches she made for her mother's party, not knowing which one it is). Monica points out that Judy once promised Monica's psychiatrist that she would stop. During the episode Phoebe tries to change the meaning to "completing the job you were hired to do" instead.
273* Apart from "pulling a Louganis", being referenced by ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'s'' medical examiner Lainie also said the BodyOfTheWeek "did a Franchise/{{Superman}} off that roof".
274* In a late 6th season episode of ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'', Shawn and Angela are attempting to have a simple, no-strings-attached romp in the sack when Shawn suddenly bursts out that he loves her. After realizing what he did he smacks his forehead and groans "I Cory'd it up!", referencing Cory's way of getting over-emotional about such things.
275* A ''Series/CurbYourEnthusiasm'' episode has Larry committing a fielding error that loses the game for his softball team, causing the coach to scream that he "Bucknered" it. Bill Buckner himself appears later in the same episode.
276* In ''Series/{{Entourage}}'' Drama says that Matt Damon "Jason Bourned him".
277* ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'' Joy at one point says, "Son of a bitch [[Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff Ferris Bueller'd]] me!"
278* ''Series/GenerationKill'': "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhGIFLWadEU Follow my tracers!]]"
279--> "He's got his fuckin bayonet out."\
280"Doing his Franchise/{{Rambo}}."
281* On ''Series/{{Girls}}'', Hannah threatened her boss that she and her colleagues could sue him for sexual harassment. She used a term "go all Film/ErinBrockovich on one's ass".
282* Among the fandom of ''Series/TwentyFour'', any character who disappears without explanation, often while being in a dangerous situation when they were last seen, is referred to as being "Behroozed," named after a minor character in Season 4 whose fate was only shown in a deleted scene.
283* In ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' NSA Agent Ellie Bishop is told to remain in the car since she doesn't have her pistol, while the other agents go after the suspect. When said suspect runs into the parking lot, Bishop drives up to block his escape. This act is referred to by Agent [=DiNozzo=] as 'pulling a Palmer', referencing a similar incident from a few seasons back where Palmer crashes his car into a suspect's car to prevent his escape.
284** Speaking of NCIS, some people have taken to referring to the DopeSlap as 'Gibbs', after the team leader who routinely slaps [=DiNozzo=] in the back of the head.
285* ''{{Series/Emergency}}'': Real life paramedics are told not to "pull a Johnny Gage" or a "Johnny and Roy" in reference to the scene in the opening credits of Gage flipping off the cap of a syringe with his thumb. The danger is that it could hit someone in the face.
286* On ''Series/OrphanBlack'', Felix needs to coach Alison into being able to impersonate Sarah (who has a vaguely lower-class English accent). He describes it as "pulling a full-reverse ''Theatre/{{Pygmalion}}'' on you."
287* On the first season of the reality show ''Series/BigBrother'' Canada, [[spoiler:Topaz]] became a person-verb when [[spoiler:she accidentally voted for Jillian to win instead of her best friend, Gary, in the finale.]] Adding insult to injury, [[spoiler:she was the swing vote, causing Gary to lose 4 to 3. As the rules were made very clear to the jurors before voting started, her vote stood.]] Houseguests and jurors in later seasons would express a strong desire not to "pull a [[spoiler:Topaz]]" when [[spoiler:voting in the finale]].
288** A secondary usage is "to be [[spoiler:Topaz'd]]", referencing the time when [[spoiler:Topaz]] had to make a difficult decision while unbeknownst to [[spoiler:her]] the rest of the houseguests watched and heard everything. In season 2, [[spoiler:Ika]] was put in the same position by Big Brother; afterwards, [[spoiler:Adele ran outside and told her she "got Topaz'd, just before the rest of the houseguests screamed at her for insulting them.]]
289* Lampshaded in ''Series/TheAdventuresOfPeteAndPete'' when Ellen, followed by the rest of her class spends the episode systematically breaking math teachers by [[ArmorPiercingQuestion asking them why they even needed to learn algebra.]] The teachers feel they have one last secret weapon, with one substitute teacher named "Shrek" (not to be confused [[Franchise/{{Shrek}} with the ogre of the same name]]). He appears have had some success until the class broke him too. The English teacher rushes into the teachers' lounge and exclaims, "They shrekked Shrek... and I just used a noun as a verb! What's wrong with me?"
290* ''Series/TheGoodPlace'': Eleanor does this to herself, though she's done so many horrible things it's not immediately clear which one she's referencing.
291-->'''Eleanor:''' You're doing what ''I'' used to do. You're pulling an Eleanor.\
292'''Michael:''' Posting my cousin's credit card number on Reddit because she said I looked tired?\
293'''Eleanor:''' [''snorts and laughs''] I forgot I did that...No. [''clears throat''] No. Pulling an Eleanor in this case is lashing out when you feel like a failure.
294* {{Parodied}} in a ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' "Celebrity Jeopardy" sketch.
295--> '''Alex Trebek:''' ''(reading the clue)'' "Of 'Simon and Garfunkel', the one who is not Garfunkel."\
296'''Sean Connery:''' [[IBangedYourMom I Garfunkel'd your mother!]]
297* In Season 2.0 of ''Series/BattleBots'', full-body spinner Mauler lost its only battle after a collision with Bigger Brother unbalanced it and caused it to flip over. Ever since, a full-body spinner losing its balance and flipping over has been referred to by robot combat enthusiasts as "doing a Mauler", and the distinctive rocking motions of an out-of-control spinner are known as a "Mauler dance".
298* On ''Series/{{QI}}'' in series G episode 18 "Just the Job" the panelists are given Slinkies and small sets of stairs to play with. Resident ButtMonkey Creator/AlanDavies fails at his first several attempts to walk the Slinky down the stairs, which host Creator/StephenFry dubs "The Alan Effect."
299* In the ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' episode "The Strike," George is irritated by dentist Tim Whatley's holiday gift of [[MyNewGiftIsLame a charitable donation in his name]], but is later inspired to "pull a Whatley" to save money on Christmas presents for his coworkers (using a FakeCharity, of course).
300* ''Series/GilmoreGirls'' likes to use the "Person as Verbing" form.
301** When Paris has an emotional breakdown and holes up at home for several days, she says that she's "totally [[Creator/HowardHughes Howard Hughesing]] it."
302** When Lane spends a few days at Paris and Rory's dorm room, Paris tells her boyfriend that Lane has been "[[Film/SidAndNancy Nancy Spungening]] it."
303** A second-person example comes when the staff of the Yale Daily News conspires to depose Paris as editor. Everyone involved in the process, including Paris, calls it a "Howell Rainesing".[[note]]In Main/RealLife, Howell Raines had only recently been fired as editor of the New York Times, so the name would be familiar to most college journalists.[[/note]]
304* In ''Series/{{Succession}}'', Tom uses the term "Gregging" to describe the process of an underling [[YouGetMeCoffee getting him coffee]]. When Greg gets promoted, Tom refers to his new underlings as "Greglets".
305* A ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'' episode has a non pop culture example in the title of the episode [[Recap/BrooklynNineNineS1E17FullBoyle "Full Boyle"]]. The term refers to detective Charles Boyle, and it means to get way too intense ''way'' too fast in a romantic relationship.
306[[/folder]]
307
308[[folder:Music]]
309* Music/SimonAndGarfunkel's "A Simple Desultory Philippic ([[EitherOrTitle or]] How I Was [=Robert McNamara=]'d Into Submission)" does this with a whole series of people.
310* Yes, we've got Music/WeirdAlYankovic in here again. When he released ''Dare to Be Stupid'', plenty of people said he "out-Devoed Music/{{Devo}}". Including Mark Mothersbaugh.
311* "Judas My Heart" by Belly. Yes, "Judas" is a verb in this song.
312* After the Franchise/AlvinAndTheChipmunks franchise pioneered the technique of speeding up audio to make it higher-pitched, the technique has been referred to as "chipmunking" in nearly any context.
313* Music/JayZ manages three for the price of one in Music/KanyeWest collab "Ni**as in Paris" with his stated propensity to "[[BadassBoast go Michael]]":
314-->...take your pick
315-->[[Music/MichaelJackson Jackson]], [[Creator/MikeTyson Tyson]], [[UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan Jordan: Game 6]]
316* Music/FallOutBoy, "Stay Frosty Royal Milk Tea":
317-->I'm 'bout to go UsefulNotes/TonyaHarding on the whole world's knee
318[[/folder]]
319
320[[folder:Mythology and Folklore]]
321* Shooting an apple or other small target off someone's head is known as WilliamTelling, after Myth/WilliamTell of course. (DontTryThisAtHome!)
322* SplittingTheArrow is also known as [[Myth/RobinHood Robin Hooding]], after Robin Hood's famous feat of doing this with the arrow of someone who had hit the bullseye in an archery competition.
323[[/folder]]
324
325[[folder:Podcasts]]
326* During a fight scene in ''Podcast/{{Sequinox}}'', Hannah refers to tackling a Scorpi as "I'm gonna [[WesternAnimation/HeyArnold Helga Pataki]] it".
327[[/folder]]
328
329[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
330Some wrestlers' names have worked themselves into the lingo:
331* Billy Gunned: A wrestler receives what seems to be a major push that ends up not going anywhere.
332* Conway Pop: A wrestler entering to dead silence from the crowd, named after Rob Conway.
333* [[Wrestling/DustyRhodes Dusty finish]]: A DisqualificationInducedVictory used to screw over a face.
334* [[Wrestling/HulkHogan Hulking Up]]: A wrestler gets a HeroicSecondWind and proceeds to NoSell his opponent's offense.
335* Wrestling/JohnCena'd: A loss to a major star (often specifically John Cena) that kills a wrestler's momentum and leaves him stranded in the midcard.
336* RickyMorton: The member of a face tag team who gets beaten up by the heels for most of a match before getting the hot tag.
337* [[Wrestling/BrianPillman Pillmanized]]: To have one's arm, ankle, or neck placed inside a folding steel chair and then attacked by the opponent stepping on the chair. Came into use after Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin (kayfabe) injured Brian Pillman's ankle in this manner.
338* XPacHeat: Fans booing a wrestler not because he's a heel, but because they think the wrestler is worthless and want him to go away.
339[[/folder]]
340
341[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
342* The French series ''Series/LesGuignolsDeLInfo'' turned soccer player Zlatan Ibrahmovic into a MemeticBadass who uses his own name to describe what he's doing (usually a synonym of "kicking ass").
343[[/folder]]
344
345[[folder:Sports]]
346* Randy Moss' habit of making difficult catches against tight defense has led to some parts of the United States using the word "Moss" (as a verb) as slang for a receiver taking the ball from a defender in the air.
347* Similarly, Odell Beckham Jr.'s capacity for making crazy acrobatic catches has led to his name being invoked when a receiver makes a difficult acrobatic catch. For instance, in one case, a commentator referred to a player making this kind of catch as "he went Odell Beckham Jr. on them".
348* A player getting a ball knocked out of their hand before they cross the goal line, particularly when it's the result of celebrating too early, is often referred to as doing a "Leon Lett", named for a Dallas Cowboys player who infamously did exactly that. If the player just plain ''drops'' it before they secure the touchdown, it's a "[=DeSean=] Jackson"[[note]]the eponymous Jackson actually did this twice, once in college and once as an NFL rookie[[/note]] -- some people use the two terms interchangeably.
349* In grappling and UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts, certain moves are named after fighters who popularized them.
350** The kimura is an armlock that is now named after judo master Masahiko Kimura, who famously used it to defeat Brazilian jiu-jitsu founder Helio Gracie.
351** The inverted kimura used by Phil "Mr. Wonderful" Davis to defeat Tim Boetsch has been called a "Mr. Wonderful" and a "Philmura".
352** A Severn choke is any crude choke or neck crank that relies on muscle over technique, used by wrestler and MMA pioneer Dan Severn in some of his earliest fights, before he learned proper technique.
353** The Pace choke, an arcane submission also known as a "pillory choke," was used for the first time in a major competition by UFC fighter Nick Pace to defeat Will Campazano. He claimed to have come up with it on the spot.
354** The D'Arce choke was named after Joe D'Arce, who used it to tap out Jason "Mayhem" Miller in a sparring session.
355** The Von Flue choke was named and popularized after Jason Von Flue used it to submit Alex Karolexis at UFC Fight Night 3.
356* A ''lot'' of amateur wrestling moves are named after the wrestler that popularized them (or the country, or the school, etc.)
357* Plenty of these in UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball:
358** In [[UsefulNotes/EnglishPremierLeague England]]:
359*** The act of overspending in pursuit of success and then going bankrupt is known as "doing a Leeds", after Leeds United took out enormous loans in the late 90s to try and reach the UsefulNotes/UEFAChampionsLeague. Had they succeeded, the resulting increase in revenue would have allowed them to pay the loans back. When they failed, however, they were left with crippling debt, had to sell off most of the squad, and plummeted into the third tier for the first time in their history.
360*** "Spursing it up" or just the adjective "Spursy" has come to mean "to inevitably and consistently fail to live up to expectations" or "to inevitably bottle away a result from a winning position" after English team Tottenham Hotspur garnered a reputation for finding new and inventive ways of snatching failure from the jaws of success over the course of their history. This has included losing matches they should be expecting to win, blowing goal leads late in the game, blowing points leads late in the season, failing to play up to the occasion, or more bizarrely, situations such as contracting food poisoning from lasagne or coming down with sickness and forfeit a crucial game needed to make it into the knockout stages of a continental competition.
361*** "Doing an Arsenal" refers to a team that goes on a phenomenal run early in the season, screws up in the middle part and falls down in the standings, then plays relatively well enough to guarantee a spot in a continental cup (usually the UEFA Champions League) but not well enough to win the league. This was named after the Gunners' infamous tendency to finish in 4th to 2nd place for years due to a mid-season slump. It disappeared between 2016 and 2022, as the Gunners weren't able to achieve even that much during that time, but came back with a vengeance in 2023 as they let an eight-point lead slip to hand Manchester City the title.
362** A "Panenka" is a penalty kick chipped into the centre of the goal, relying on the fact that goalkeepers invariably dive to either the left or right and leave the centre of the goal wide open. It's named after Antonin Panenka, who scored the winning penalty in the 1976 European Championship in such a manner.
363** A "Cryuff turn" is a technique in which a player feigns a pass or cross, but instead drags the ball behind them, turns on the spot, and accelerates away. It was made famous by the late Johan Cruyff during the 1974 World Cup.
364** "Pulling a Sergio Ramos", after the former Real Madrid captain, has two very different meanings: accidentally [[EpicFail dropping a trophy]] [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1379144/Real-Madrids-Segio-Ramos-drops-Copa-del-Rey-trophy-wheels-bus.html you were celebrating you had just won]]... or scoring [[DownToTheLastPlay that last-minute winning goal]].
365** In Brazil, the defensive midfielder is known as "Volante" after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Volante Carlos Volante]], an Argentinian player who excelled in the position while playing in Flamengo.
366** In Germany, a horrendous close-range miss is known as "a Mill" after Frank Mill, a German striker who, in 1986, made [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHoobGDKlzI what is commonly referred to as "the miss of the century"]] and [[NeverLiveItDown has never been allowed to forget about it]].
367* In UsefulNotes/{{Cricket}}, "Mankadding" is used to describe the act by which a bowler stops his (or her) run-up to run out the non-striking batsman. It's named for Vinoo Mankad, who did this twice to Bill Brown during India's 1947-48 tour of Australia — the first time in a warm-up match, the second time in a Test match. Although such an act is not an infringement of the Laws of Cricket, to some it is considered unsporting and against the spirit of the game. Especially if the bowler did not warn the batsman about their excessive backing-up before doing it (which Mankad had done prior to his dismissal of Brown in the warm-up match).
368* As soon as the 2015 NHL Draft Lottery was won by [[IncompetenceInc the forever rebuilding]] [[ButtMonkey Edmonton Oilers]], Twitter was suggesting to top prospect Connor [=McDavid=] to "pull an Eric Lindros" [[http://www.sportsology.com/node/11369 and refuse playing there.]]
369* Choking in the clutch is known by many as [="LeBroning"=] (basketball), "Doing a [=McNabb=]" (NFL), or "Clemsoning" ([[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball college football]]). The first of these fell out of usage when UsefulNotes/LeBronJames finally won a NBA championship in 2012, and the last went away after Clemson won national titles in 2016 and 2018.
370* When NFL player Aaron Hernandez was arrested for murder, pulling a pose where one imitates being handcuffed while a shirt is placed over their arms and body (in reference to Hernandez' arrest) was dubbed "Hernandezing".
371* Sports website Deadspin uses [[https://deadspin.com/tag/lolmets "to Mets"]] and [[https://deadspin.com/tag/loljets "to Jets"]] to mean to fail spectacularly in a bizarre and improbable manner at baseball and football respectively.
372* Elite gymnastics actually has this as an official part of the rulebook: gymnasts can get moves named after them if they're the first person to do them in a major competition. For example, a back handspring vault entry is a "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalia_Yurchenko Yurchenko]]" entry, a backflip over the horizontal bar is a "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A9ter_Kov%C3%A1cs_(gymnast) Kovacs]]", and a triple twisting double back on women's floor is a "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Biles Biles II]]"[[note]]the numeral is because it's the second element on that event named after her[[/note]]. Particularly complicated moves are likely to be referred to pretty much exclusively by name in commentary because using the technical description would just be too cumbersome (for instance, the beam skill known as an "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_%C3%93nodi Onodi]]" is virtually always going to be called simply Onodi, because "jump half turn into a front walkover" is just too much of a mouthful, particularly in the context of TV commentary). For some gymnasts -- particularly those from less-prominent gymnastics countries who aren't likely to win major medals -- getting a named skill is a way to mark their legacy in the sport, even if the skill isn't especially difficult[[note]]although the current code does require newly-submitted skills to clear a difficulty threshold in order to be officially named; a skill that doesn't meet the criteria will be added to the code without a name attached, though this doesn't tend to stop fans from using the name unofficially anyway[[/note]].
373* Same thing happens in figure skating, including well-known moves such as the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel_jump Axel]], the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutz_jump Lutz]], and the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salchow_jump Salchow]].
374* Many a major collapse in golf has been referred to as "pulling a de Velde". This is in reference to French golfer Jean van de Velde and his infamous collapse at the 1999 Open Championship.
375* Winning two games of a three-game series (most often in baseball, but also mentioned in other sports) is sometimes called a "Music/{{Meatloaf}}", after his song "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad".
376* A baseball pitcher throwing a complete-game shutout with less than 100 pitches is know as a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Maddux "Maddux"]]. Greg Maddux, known for his precise pitch placement and excellent control, holds the record himself, with thirteen such games.
377* The term "mulligan" in golf reportedly traces back to David Mulligan, manager of the windsor hotel and a golfer from the late 1920s. He was the only one in his group of friends who had a car and was thus responsible for driving them through the course. He would get shaken up by a particularly nasty bridge and struggle with the first tee afterward. His friends allowed him a do-over because, again, he was the only one with a car. Hitting a second shot off the first tee became known as "hitting a Mulligan" and was eventually shortened to just "a mulligan".
378* UsefulNotes/HorseRacing gives us "doing a Devon Loch", meaning an act of failing to win at the last minute despite being in a seemingly unassailable position. It is named for the racehorse who, at the 1956 Grand National, blew a five-length lead going into the home stretch by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62fPLtL8h7s unexpectedly jumping in the air and falling on his stomach]]. As a result, he is referred to by British journalists (particularly but not exclusively sports journalists) to this day.
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382[[folder:Theater]]
383* "She's No Longer A Gypsy" from the musical ''Applause'':
384-->You woke up early\
385And pulled a Creator/ShirleyMacLaine!
386* OlderThanSteam: [[JustForFun/TheZerothLawOfTropeExamples As usual, Shakespeare invented this one]]:
387** "it out-Herods Herod" in ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' [[note]]This one's an allusion to one of the old cycles of Biblical Miracle Plays which were the roots of English theatre; the raging tyrant Herod was one of the most melodramatic, over-the-top roles. Hamlet's warning against overacting.[[/note]]
388** "She Phebes me" in ''Theatre/AsYouLikeIt''.
389** ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew'' has "Petruchio is Kated," which in context means both "Petruchio has married Kate (and is now stuck with her)" and "Petruchio's become like Kate."
390[[/folder]]
391
392[[folder:Toys]]
393* Toys/{{Bionicle}}:
394-->'''Tahu''': We're going to do a [[BoisterousBruiser Pohatu]] on him.\
395'''Kopeke''': A Pohatu?\
396'''Tahu''': Yes, that's right, a Pohatu. "When in doubt, smash everything, and then hope you're somewhere else when it all goes 'boom'".
397[[/folder]]
398
399[[folder:Video Games]]
400* The strategy game ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpiresIII'' has a cheat called [[WebAnimation/TeenGirlSquad "Soo good"]], where every unit kill would be accompanied by a bugle blast and an on-screen message along the lines of "'''''KILLER UNIT'D!!!'''''". So, if one was killed by a rifleman, he would get a message called "'''''MUSKETEER'D!!!'''''" or when the killer was a cavalryman there would be a message like "'''''HUSSAR'D!!!'''''". There are even circumstances where cannons or experienced units are named, with their whole titles; "'''''IMPERIAL HOWITZER'D!!!'''''". It is also awesome.
401* From ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'', you "pull a Tonya Harding" when you attack people with a club.
402** Technically, you pull a Tonya Harding when you have a club equipped in your main hand by hiring someone to beat up your enemy.
403* At one point, VideoGame/MaxPayne says that he "Made like Chow Yun-Fat"
404** The game's film noir-esqe storytelling guarantees plenty of references of this kind. Max "plays it [[Creator/HumphreyBogart Bogart]]," and has to deal with "a regular [[Film/TheUsualSuspects Keyser Soze]]."
405* By the time of ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'', "pulling a Bindo" has come to refer to a Jedi breaking the Jedi Code by marrying, referring to the first game's Jolee Bindo, who did just that. Bad joke, bald guy, long story.
406** Which he will be glad to tell you in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic 1'', because there's a moral and a lesson in there...somewhere.
407* Screw Attack recently coined a new one in their Top 10 Zombie Games list: [[VideoGame/DeadRising Frank Westing]]. It means "Grabbing the nearest object and using it to kill zombies"
408* The competitive ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' community has a few, usually to describe particular flaws. For example, a Pokemon with an extremely limited movepool suffers from "Flareon syndrome".
409* In ''VideoGame/MySims Kingdom'', the player needs to gain the ability to make gears, only to find that Princess Butter has preemptively stolen the appropriate scroll.
410-->'''Lyndsay:''' Ugh! Buttered again!
411* The ''VideoGame/EscapeVelocity'' fandom uses the phrase "pulling a Creator/MontyPython" (also called the [[AttackPatternAlpha Monty Python Maneuver]]) to refer to abusing the AI's SuicidalOverconfidence by flying away from the target, then turning around and drifting backwards[[note]]partial aversion of SpaceFriction[[/note]] while firing.
412* In ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'', a more derogatory term is "Olafing/ed". Basically, Riot took a balanced champion (Olaf, obviously) that benefited from the current meta,and nerfed him to the ground by making every skill borderline useless, and then left him to rot for over a year until his rework, which initially was an even bigger disaster that made Olaf even more useless. Eventually, Olaf received a few buffs to make him semi-viable on one specific team composition, and then was nerfed out of existence again. With Olaf having eventually made it back into general viability, this term has declined somewhat.
413** There are also three examples from the game's massive competitive scene named after the pro players who popularised them:
414*** '[=xPeke=]' - to sneak or teleport into the enemy base and knock down their structures, or even their Nexus, earning your team a comeback victory, coined after [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4bdDWt9Jfw this famous play]].
415*** '[=InSec=]' - to dash in behind someone and knock them back towards your team, named after the famous Korean jungler who popularised this tactic with his superlative Lee Sin play.
416*** '[=MadLife=]' - to throw out a skillshot crowd control (most famously a Thresh hook, which has a long wind-up) to catch an enemy after they use a FlashStep by predicting where they're going to go so they jump ''into'' it, in an extreme form of LeadTheTarget. Named after the Korean support who was particularly infamous for being able to do this regularly, perhaps most famously demonstrated [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcdg9n3avWA&feature=youtu.be&t=26m6s here]].
417** Jinx's ImageSong, called 'Get Jinxed!' is all about what it looks like to be hit with her brand of [[TerroristsWithoutACause aimless terrorism]].
418* Anton Nasser, a friendly NPC with a grossly overpowered ship in the game ''VideoGame/{{Transcendence}}'', is notorious for shooting players while firing at hostile ships. It happens often enough that players often call getting destroyed by friendly NPC “getting Nasser’d.”
419** ''VideoGame/FreeSpace2'''s stock AI, and some of the variations via the source code down the years, have inspired a similar comment about getting "Alpha 2'd". This doesn't refer to shooting, however; it refers to being killed when your wingmate ''rammed'' you due to bad collision avoidance.
420* In ''VideoGame/FreedomPlanet2'', when Carol apologizes to Milla for [[LeeroyJenkins running off on her own without the others' permission]] to try to negotiate with her older sister Cory (who has joined Merga's forces), Milla explains that she and Lilac are already used to it, and even refer to the act as "pulling a Carol", even keeping count on how many times it happened in the past. [[spoiler:In every character ending barring Lilac's, Neera joins in onto using the term, referring to Lilac [[IWillFindYou going off to find Merga]] as her "pulling a Carol", much to Carol's dismay.]]
421* In ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'', if you keep getting into the Isolation Cell one of Batman's hallucination will "spell it out for you" and say that going in the cell will lead to Robin being "Jason Todd-ed," or killed.
422--> ''"Now, it seems you're struggling with the subtext Bats so let me spell it out: Lock yourself up and Tim Drake will be "[[DeadlyEuphemism Jason Todd-ed]]". The bird boy needs to be put in his cage."''
423* This match intro dialogue from ''VideoGame/MortalKombat1'':
424-->'''Liu Kang:''' I will now demonstrate [[WaxOnWaxOff why you sanded those floors]].\
425'''Johnny Cage:''' ''Holy shit'', I've been [[Film/TheKarateKid Miyagi'ed]]!
426
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428
429[[folder:Webcomics]]
430* ''Webcomic/OneOverZero'': "Pulling a Ribby" is the practice of removing yourself from the universe of the strip by literally getting lost in your imagination -- [[PaintingTheMedium you create a thought bubble and climb into it.]]
431* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': "Who knew all you had to do was break [Roy's] sword and he'd go all [[Series/TheIncredibleHulk1977 Lou Ferrigno]]."
432* ''Webcomic/HomeOnTheStrange'': "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20180107102627/http://www.homeonthestrange.com/view.php?ID=22 I Buffy the door!]]" (Translation: "I kick in the door.)
433* ''Webcomic/{{Lackadaisy}}'':
434--> '''Ivy''': Well, where is he, then?\
435'''Viktor''': I don't know. Vanished like, ehh - vhat's his name? - who does alvays those tricks.\
436'''Ivy''': Houdini?\
437'''Viktor''': Ya. Houdini.\
438'''Ivy''': Viktor... someone needs to teach you how to tell a decent lie.
439* ''Webcomic/SparklingGenerationValkyrieYuuki'': After Yuki put her hand in a mouth of giant wolf, Hemrod accused her of "pullin Tyr" in a nice Norse Mythology shout out (not surprising, when you look at a premise...).
440* ''Wicked Lasers'', a side story made by the creator of ''Webcomic/SoreThumbs''.
441--> ''Pulse'': "A Snotto: losing one's arms in a careless or idiotic way". Said to [[StableTimeLoop Snotto, right after that happens]].
442* ''Webcomic/DorkTower'': "Pulling a Matt", named after the character Matt [=McLimore=], involves failing on a date due to some kind of catastrophic geekdom-related mental breakdown such as mentally blogging the other person.
443* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2350 2017-05-22]]: Read more comics ... if you're going to Cheerleadra. (Be a superhero).
444* ''Webcomic/ShotAndChaser'': Olly says ''"Wow, you just straight up [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Grandpa Simpsoned]] out of there."'' when Tre steps into a convenience store, then turns around and walks back out after seeing no one inside is wearing masks.
445* ''Webcomic/ZebraGirl'': Harold's comment on Jack's ascension: "You've pulled a Gandalf! Congratulations, my boy!"
446* ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge'''s Joe uses the phrase "Danny it up" to refer to, well, Danny messing up a situation due to his social ineptitude. It's become a running use in the fandom as well.
447[[/folder]]
448
449[[folder:Web Original]]
450* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic:
451** On an infamous drug-themed PSA: "What a twist! They Creator/MNightShyamalan'ed my ass!"
452** And during his review of ''Film/AloneInTheDark2005'':
453--->Woah, did he just try to out-Slater Creator/ChristianSlater?
454** The Critic also uses "[[Creator/QuentinTarantino Tarantinoing]]" to describe [[SeinfeldianConversation when characters engage in a dialogue that adds little to the plot but is quirky and funny to listen to]].
455* During Chris Sims' [[http://comicsalliance.com/comicsalliance-tank-girl-review/ review of]] ''Film/TankGirl'', he has this to say:
456-->...but for now, let's check in with Creator/MalcolmMcDowell, who is [=Malcom McDowelling=] it up over at Water & Power HQ...
457* Music/HankGreen of the WebVideo/{{Vlogbrothers}} made 'Warner Chilcot' a curse word after the company of that name [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPf8vwnoEtU raised the price of his medication by 1200%.]]
458* Parodied to the point of RefugeInAudacity in the Podcast/RiffTrax of ''Film/{{Avatar}}'', as Neytiri fends off the jackal-like animals attacking Jake's Avatar.
459--> ''"There's the Flying [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Legolas]]. Followed by the [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Donatello]]. Unexpected [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan Shatner Khan yell.]] Ahh, the [[UsefulNotes/OJSimpson OJ.]]''
460--> ''[[CrossesTheLineTwice I heard Michael Vick pulled a]] PeeWee Herman [[CrossesTheLineTwice in the theater during this scene.]]''
461** They refer to RapidFireNo[=s=] as "Shia [=LaBeouf-ing=]" and during ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'':
462--->'''Kevin:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=josaaE391U4 "Everybody Shia!"]] ''[everybody starts saying "no" rapidly]''
463* Creator/AchievementHunter has "Calebing", referring to an incident where one of their crew members was caught cheating in a ''[[LetsPlay/AchievementHunterMinecraftSeries Let's Play Minecraft]]'' episode. Specifically, Caleb Denecour was caught screen-looking (i.e., looking at another player's screen). He eventually became the most hated person in the division since and has stopped appearing in their videos.
464** Other "-ing"s include "pulling a Gavin" (TooDumbToLive moments and making up words on the spot) "pulling a Ray" (dominating a game) "Pulling a Michael" (RageQuit), "pulling a Geoff" (DidNotThinkThisThrough moments and screwing up catastrophically in Videogame/GrandTheftAutoV) and "pulling a Lindsay" (building structures in ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' with the wrong material). There's also "Sprunking" (someone getting wiped out epically in a car), which comes from the ProductPlacement on a car in GTA V.
465* LetsPlay/UberHaxorNova often does a [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIVTheBalladOfGayTony Gay Tony]] jump in his videos, probably referencing the base-jumping from that add-on.
466* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'':
467** [[MemeticLoser Yamcha]]- To be defeated unceremoniously.
468** Vegeta- to massively screw things up due to egotism.
469-->'''Vegeta:''' Don't you ''verb'' me!
470** After the Ginyu Force's... campy introduction, Freeza internally remarks "sure is Zarbon in here."
471* LetsPlay/{{Northernlion}} refers to raising an object above your head in a ''[[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Legend of Zelda]]''-like fashion as "zeldaing". Especially prevalent in his ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'' LetsPlay.
472* LetsPlay/TearOfGrace sometimes uses "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_jBoAGLZF0&t=3m32s Sonic O'sixing]]" when referring to video game enemies that [[SuperSpeed dart across the screen]], and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zunWy6sMlB8#t=3m13s Casper the friendly ghosting]]" when enemies appear to be hovering in mid air.
473* In the Literature/ChakonaSpace 'verse, Neal Foster has been known to work anywhere from 12 to 36 hours straight, often skipping meals or otherwise working through meals. In chapter 6 of ''"Tales of the Folly"'', Neal's apprentice engineers try to "pull a Foster" and do the same thing.
474* ''Website/TheEditingRoom'': The script for ''Film/WrathOfTheTitans''.
475-->'''Creator/LiamNeeson:''' Would you please stop reminding daddy about how he tried to Casey Anthony you?
476* In various forums, the term "Ninja'd" is used when someone replies to a thread while someone else was in the process of doing so.[[note]]Not to be confused with [[ForumSpeak Ninja Editor]].[[/note]] In discussions related to works involving a ninja, the ninja character's name may be used instead:
477** The ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' thread has "Kaede'd".
478** ''Website/TheDailyWTF'' forums use "Hanzo'd" after a character from a series of articles.
479* According to WordOfGod, the Sheriff in the ''WebAnimation/MadnessCombat series'' is universally recognised as [[TheScrappy the most useless and hated character]] who Krinkels was [[KilledOffForReal glad to be rid of]]. Krinkels even used the term " going the way of the Sheriff" to allude to being KilledOffForReal.
480* In Brazil, the tendency of blog Kibe Loco to steal jokesimages from others led to the verb "kibar" to acknowledge such posting without attribution.
481* ''WebVideo/OutsideXbox''
482** After Ellen Rose pulled a given trick in multiple quizzes, they started using "to ellen" and "ellenings" to mean "to ask a multiple choice question where the correct answer is not given as one of the choices", although the term has since broadened to refer to any trick question.
483** "Mike-ing it" or "going full Mike" means to approach a stealth project in a manner containing no stealth and plenty of gunfire and explosions, based on a favored tactic by Mike Channell.
484** In their [[WebVideo/{{Oxventure}} Dungeons and Dragons playthroughs]], to "be a Dob" is "engaging in reckless behavior that causes harm to your compatriots." It's entered the lexicon so much that the greedy pirate has a side hustle selling a FunTShirt with the phrase.
485* In ''WebAnimation/FinalFantasyVIIMachinabridged'', Cloud has become so infamous for [[RunningGag fucking up]] that Red XIII asks if he "did a Cloud," much to Cloud's chagrin. Especially notable as Red XIII usually calls him "Blond One."
486* ''WebVideo/FreemansMind'' adds one after Freeman encounters Dr. Issac Kleiner at the beginning of ''VideoGame/HalfLife2''.
487-->'''Gordon:''' Dammit, you know what the problem is? I just got Kleiner'd. I have a hundred questions I need answered, I need supplies, but instead he distracted me, got me excited about his experiment, and almost got me killed. Again. And now that the experiment's done, I'm out the door. Dammit, Kleiner!
488* Over at Eurogamer, during their ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'' LetsPlay, Johnny accidentally corrupted the save file of their first Bloodborne character, who for reasons that [[ItMakesSenseInContext sort of make sense but would take a while to explain]] was named Sex Cop. Later, when Johnny and Aoife suffer a severe technical issue while playing ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'', Johnny immediately expresses concern that they might have "Sex Copped" the save file.
489* ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' uses '4Kids'd!' to refer to Atem's DubNameChange.
490* The ''WebVideo/HardlyWorking'' sketch "Lady Macbething" has [=CollegeHumor=] writers Owen Parsons and Brian "Murph" Murphy alternately trying to [[TheCorrupter convince each other to kill their boss in order to ascend the ranks]]. Their verb usage of the noun "LadyMacbeth" to describe what they're doing is somewhat marred by PopCulturalOsmosisFailure as [[spoiler:it turns out Murph has never actually read ''Shakespeare/{{Macbeth}}'' and thinks that the verb also implies [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder betrayal of the recipient]], which, as Owen points out too late after Murph has stabbed him, "doesn't happen in the play."]]
491* In ''WebAnimation/FiftyPercentOff'', Nagisa refers to a DuckSeasonRabbitSeason spat between him and Gou as getting "WesternAnimation/{{Looney Tune|s}}d".
492* ''WebVideo/VGMyths'': This is used with Solid Snake, ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' protagonist, in "Hyrule Myths - Can You Kill Ganon With A Cucco?", [[https://youtu.be/ot53M4UCWG8?list=PLfDC5d996dRH4StrfmU1SEqXjhpstgoML&t=181 when talking]] about sneaking:
493--> Somehow, I don't think the guy with the incessantly screaming ''chicken'' on his head is gonna be Solid Snaking his way through this fortress.
494* In WebVideo/{{Max0r}}[='s=] ''An Incorrect Summary of VideoGame/DevilMayCry5'', as Dante is about to kill Urizen:
495-->'''Dante:''' Get back, V, I'm about to Al Capone this bitch.
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497
498[[folder:Western Animation]]
499* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': In "Grubhog Day", one of Sprig Plantar's ancestors screwed up a previous Grubhog Day celebration by eating the grubhog. When he gets a chance to restore his family's honor by looking after this year's grubhog, the guidebook he's giving includes the warning "''Don't'' pull a Plantar!"
500* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'': In "Three to Tango", Archer announced he was "Archer-izing" their plan.
501-->'''Lana:''' You ''cannot'' make yourself a verb! I will not allow it!\
502'''Archer:''' I'm a verb now, Lana. Deal with it!
503* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'' animated series occasionally had characters use "Beetlejuicing" to refer to Beetlejuice's tendency to use his reality-warping abilities to cause trouble and screw with people.
504* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'':
505** In "Beefsquatch", the name of Gene's on-air alter ego Beefsquatch gets used as a verb several times.
506--->'''Linda:''' [Bob]'s just sad because Gene beefsquatched all over his big break.
507** According to "Best Burger", Gene's [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny short attention span]] is such that his family refers to losing focus and screwing up as "Gene-ing out".
508--->'''Gene:''' Oh my god, I'm a verb! I'm a ''bad'' verb!\
509'''Tina:''' You're a [[{{Portmanteau}} berb]].\
510'''Gene:''' I'm a berb!
511** In "Itty Bitty Ditty Committee", after Linda learns that Gene was kicked out of his own band, she says he got [[Music/VanHalen David Lee Roth-ed]].
512* In ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'', [=BoJack=] tells a girl he slept with to leave his house. He asks for her name and when she tells him it's Pam he says he doesn't want her "Paming up the place."
513* Go to DuckSeasonRabbitSeason and count how many examples refer to it as "being [[WesternAnimation/BugsBunny Bugs Bunnied]]".
514** The term is used in a ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' episode by Little Suzy when she does it to Johnny.
515* ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'': After her not-so-nice actions during the Death Maze, Joan's name is used to mean "screwing up". Ivan the Terrible even shows Joan that it's found its way into the Urban Dictionary.
516* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Dilbert}}'', Wally's name used as an all-purpose pejorative.
517-->"Yeah, you know, as in: 'he's a total Wally,' or, 'I've got to take a Wally.'
518* From ''WesternAnimation/{{Disenchantment}}:''
519-->'''Luci:''' There's no use talking to him. Elfo's gone Elfo.\
520'''Elfo:''' I'm a noun and a verb!
521* From ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince:'' "Okay, what is that, with the nose, the finger? Not everyone speaks Claudia, [[CloudCuckooLander Claudia]]!"
522* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': In "The Living Mummies of Toth-Ra!", Webby uses "pulling a Louie" to refer to Louie's tendency to rush into things and ignore the rules.
523* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
524** In one episode, after discovering the Planet Express crew had fallen victim to a ScoobyDooHoax, Amy refers to it as being "Scooby-Dooed".
525** In another, when facing an alien whose ego manifests as a separate monstrous entity, he's giving a performance where the attention is making said entity grow to massive sizes:
526---> '''Farnsworth:''' The attention Cobb's receiving is inflating his ego! It's going totally [[Music/KanyeWest Kanye]]!
527** A "[[BackAlleyDoctor Zoidberg]]," naturally, is "an awful, incompetent doctor."
528--->'''Actual Doctor:''' Wow, he must've been a total Zoidberg.\
529'''Hermes:''' It ''was'' Zoidberg!
530* ''WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'': When the Grinch comes down the chimney for the first time, the narrator uses "grinch" as a verb, which apparently just means "to talk like the Grinch":
531-->'''The Grinch''': These stockings...
532-->'''The Narrator''': He grinched.
533-->'''The Grinch''': Are the first things to go!
534* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' features both "pulling a Viper" and "pulling a Jade."
535* Happens in ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'', when one of the sisters says "I think we've been Johnnied!"
536* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', an angry Varrick coined two in the same sentence: [[spoiler:"Zhu Li'd"]] for an act of betrayal, and [[spoiler:"Varricked" for suicide by FantasticNuke]].
537* In-universe in ''Literature/TheMagicSchoolBus'', Tim likes commenting that the class "got [[InexplicablyAwesome Frizzled]]".
538* ''WesternAnimation/MaxSteel'': "When the bad guys are up to no good, they use local lore to scare away the curious. That's the [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo Scooby]] Way."
539* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In the season 9 premiere "The Beginning of the End", Pinkie Pie refers to Twilight Sparkle's panicking over a job she can clearly handle as "Twilighting". Ironically enough, part 2 ''really'' [[DarkestHour gives her something to Twilight over]], [[CharacterDevelopment yet she handles it a bit more gracefully]].
540* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' has "Pulling a Mordecai", which is described as "The act of never making a move, but at the same time, not knowing what to do with your hands".
541* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty''
542** In "Rick Potion #9," both Rick and Morty use the word [[Creator/DavidCronenberg "Cronenberged"]] both as a verb and a noun after a love potion mishap causes everyone to mutate into hideous monsters.
543** In "Something Ricked This Way Comes", when Summer is screwed out of her boss's business after helping him make it successful, she proceeds to say that she's been [[Website/{{Facebook}} Zuckerberged]].
544--->'''Mr. Needful:''' I was Zuckerberging people before Zuckerberg's ''balls'' dropped.
545** A more in-universe example happens in another episode when Rick, unhappy with Morty, states he's going to go take a "biiiiig fat Morty."
546-->'''Rick:''' That's my new word for "shit" after today's events.
547** In "The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy", after Summer's misuse of one of Rick's machines causes her to accidentally grow to a giant size, then get her body turned inside out, Morty says that "she [[Creator/CliveBarker Clive Barkered]] herself".
548* A ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower'' ep has a character worried that he's unleashed a curse by taking a small Hawaiian statue saying "I pulled a [[Series/TheBradyBunch Bobby Brady]]."
549* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
550** In "Homer Defined", "Pulling a Homer" means [[SeeminglyProfoundFool doing something great through accident, luck, or stupidity]] and, optionally, looking rather stupid at the same time. ''The Dictionary of Bullshit'' actually lists "pulling a Homer" with the full definition from the episode, making it a rare valid example in a sea of self-referential jokes that never get notable pop-culture usage. The writers said on a DVD commentary that they were kind of hoping that "pulling a Homer" would catch on and end up in the dictionary for real, alas it was not to be.
551*** Although, in 2015, in the time leading up to the release of ''Franchise/StarWars'' Episode VII: ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', Creator/MarkHamill, who'd appeared AsHimself in "Mayored To The Mob", urged fans not to "be a Homer", i.e. let spoilers out, in reference to the episode "I Married Marge", when Homer was shown in a flashback giving away [[LukeIAmYourFather the plot twist]] of ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''.
552** In "Girls Just Want To Have Sums", when [[SweetPollyOliver Lisa reveals that she was masquerading as the boy Jake Boyman]], Jimbo says "We've been Film/{{Yentl}}'d!".
553** In "The Miseducation of Lisa Simpson," Springfield replaces its standard elementary with a high-tech STEM school which Lisa quickly discovers is only offering a real education to its "gifted" students while training everyone else to perform menial labor in the gig economy. Bart, who prefers the new system, follows her upon seeing her walking with purpose and realizing that she's about to "[[HonorBeforeReason Lisa]] up a good thing."
554** In "Warrin' Priests," Ned's kids reveal that he's forbidden them from leaving church before the pastor dismisses the service, a practice he apparently calls "Homer Simpsoning."
555--->'''Homer:''' [[HypocriticalHumor Yeah, don't Homer Simpson, you jerk!]]
556* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
557** When Kyle is urging Stan to admit he ''did'' remove his [=STANdground bracelet=] and just eat crow and embrace the truth, he tells Stan that he needs to "Bill Clinton" it.
558** The term "[[Creator/BillCosby Hot Cosby]]" is used for date rape. However, by way of {{Snowclone}}, "Slow Cosby" refers to actually developing a genuine and loving relationship with someone.
559** [[TheSmartGuy Kyle]] suspects [[OnlySaneMan Stan]] of sabotaging their efforts to find [[IntrepidReporter Jimmy]] (and vice versa), and sneers that it's "very [[ManipulativeBastard Cartman]] of you." [[TokenEvilTeammate Cartman]], who is watching the fight with relish, comments that that's a low blow, and indeed, when Kyle says it again Stan outright attacks him.
560* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In the "Krusty Krab Training Video", the viewers are instructed not to be a LazyBum with their work ethic, using Squidward as an example.
561-->'''Narrator:''' Remember: no employee wants to be a Squidward!
562* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': In "Joking Victim", [[KidHero Steven]] makes a mess in the donut shop, and [[StraightMan Sadie]] says that she cleaned "the last five Stevens."
563* In the Creator/{{Terrytoons}} feature ''The Adventures Of Lariat Sam'' (a segment of the ''Series/CaptainKangaroo'' show), whenever Sam and his horse Tippytoes fell victim to a plot from villain Badlands Meeny, Tippytoes would deadpan "We've been Meenyed again, Sam."
564* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'':
565** When they're up against a female condor that Chris mentions has a 12-foot wingspan in "[[Recap/TotalDramaRapaPhooey Rapa-Phooey!]]", Alejandro can't help but comment that means the wingspan is "two Alejandros wide".
566** When it's time for the talent show, the challenge Sugar proposed in "[[Recap/TotalDramaPahkdWithTalent Pahk'd With Talent]]", she warns Sky and Shawn that they're "going to get Sugar'ed bad".
567* On ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'', when Jack is convinced to sneak onto the battlefield, his first words upon arriving are "Oh man. I pulled a [[LeeroyJenkins Miko]]!"
568* On ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'', when Lord Hater finds that his idol, Major Threat, did a HeelFaceTurn thanks to Wander, he describes him as being "Wanderized".
569* In ''WesternAnimation/TheWeekenders'' episode "To Tish", Tish's name becomes a verb meaning to do something egghead-y.
570* On ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'', Jack Spicer learns that, much to his chagrin, the supervillain community has been using his name in reference to immense failures.
571-->'''Vlad:''' Now when one lose everything, new hip thing to say is, "Oh, I've been jacked!"
572[[/folder]]
573
574!!Real Life
575[[folder:Repeatedly Used On TV Tropes]]
576* Many TropeNamers are taken directly from an iconic use of the trope, in turn Administrivia/RenamedTropes came about due to not being clear enough, especially if you are not familiar with the example.
577* {{Flynning}}, named after Creator/ErrolFlynn.
578* Your theory has been {{Jossed}}.
579* This section has become totally {{Flanderiz|ation}}ed and needs to end here.
580* After all the Spike... BadassDecay this page has endured, we've only {{Disneyfication}} to look forward to, and then we may get {{Grimmifi|cation}}ed.
581* Don't forget ClarkKenting and MacGyvering.
582* Various fan communities (including this one) also [[SelfDemonstratingArticle Tuckerized]] {{Tuckerization}}.
583* AdamWesting.
584* ThePerryMasonMethod
585* TheQuisling, a heinous and cowardly traitor.
586* To pull a LeeroyJenkins stunt is well-known enough to have a trope named after it!
587* {{Bowdlerized}}
588* {{Macekre}} (named for a reaction to Carl Macek's {{Frankenslation}} style) and {{Woolseyism}} (named for Ted Woolsey's translation style) count as well.
589* MadDoctor used to be called "The Mengele", since UsefulNotes/JosefMengele's main claim to notoriety are the unethical medical experiments he performed in Auschwitz.
590* The word Administrivia/{{Crosswicking}} is derived from the word Administrivia/{{Wick}}, which is named after Tropers/MorganWick.
591* TheStarscream, after the famously awful repeat backstabbings of the titular Transformer.
592[[/folder]]
593
594[[folder:Artistic Discussion]]
595* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foley_%28filmmaking%29 Foleying]] is reproducing everyday sound effects and adding them in post production to enhance the quality of the film. This was created by Jack Foley during the silent movie era.
596* "Stan" or "stanning", a term for [[LoonyFan obsessive, toxic fandom]], is derived from Music/{{Eminem}}'s song "Stan", which is about a (fictional) mentally-ill fan of Em's.
597* {{Gaslighting}} is based on the movie ''Film/{{Gaslight}}''.
598* The word {{Spoonerism}} is a reference to Rev. William Archibald Spooner, who was allegedly prone to doing it frequently, although he personally only admitted to one of the many that are attributed to him.
599* Thanks to the Manti Te'o scandal and the publicity it gave to the movie ''Catfish'', "Catfishing" has entered the slang lexicon. Its definition: to create a [[InventedIndividual completely fictitious life]] online, with or without deceitful intentions, especially when the life is of a member of the opposite sex.
600* In some places, it's still possible for paramedics to be told not to "John Gage" syringe caps, flipping off with a thumb. This comes from the ''Series/{{Emergency}}'' character's habit, and unfortunately can shoot the thing into someone's face if done wrong, hence disgouraging it.
601* In Brazil, the tendency of blog Kibe Loco to steal content without giving proper credit to the creator led to the verb "kibar" to denote such plagiarizing. People even watermark their images with a tag downright noting it's an "anti-kibe seal".
602[[/folder]]
603
604[[folder:General Linguistics]]
605* The verb ''Cantinflear'' (from Mexican actor Mario Moreno "Cantinflas") is authorized by the Royal Spanish Language Academy to describe nonsensical speaking.
606* The Catholic Church most of the time named what from their point of view were heresies after their leader or the person they perceived as such, no matter what these religious groups called themselves. Thus you get Arianism after Arius, the Hussite movement named after Jan Hus, Lutheranism after Martin Luther and so on.
607** On the other hand, religious orders also were frequently named after their real or alleged founder (e. g. Benedictine monks after St. Benedict of Nursia, Franciscans after St. Francis of Assisi) or their patrons, e. g. Jesuits after guess who. A certain type of argument then got saddled with the adjective "Jesuitical".
608* In Dutch, being a "Tokkie" means being an anti-social, after a family by that name became famous after they were the subject of a couple of documentaries showing some not so model-behavior.
609* Ruben Oskar Auervaara was a Finnish fraud who seduced women in order to get his hands on their fortunes. In Finland, the word "Auervaara" is still occasionally used to describe that kind of a swindler.
610* To slashdot a website is to overwhelm the server with (legitimate) hits, in a sort of accidental DDOS attack performed by real humans. Named because a link from Website/{{Slashdot}} could often have this effect on smaller sites, especially when web servers weren't as capable as they are now.
611* "Fisking" is the point-by-point refutation of an article, essay, or statement, often delivered with a heaping helping of snark on the side. It was named after journalist Robert Fisk (long-time Middle East correspondent for ''[[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers The Independent]]''), who wrote an article that the blogger Andrew Sullivan (a conservative[[note]]Well, sort of--in the US he's distinctly moderate[[/note]] blogger, and a British expat in the United States) proceeded to pick apart line by line. The term was originally used mostly by conservatives attacking liberals, but has since spread to the general blogosphere.
612* A "Yogism" is something that seems to make sense while you say it, but really doesn't make any sense when you think about it (or doesn't make sense when you first hear it, but actually makes quite a bit of sense once you mull it over), named after noted baseball player Yogi Berra. Examples include things like "It gets late early out here," "If you can't imitate him, don't copy him," and "I could've probably said that."
613* There was once a Parisian tabletop RPG player nicknamed Gros Bill (Big Bill). And he got the attention of tabletop RPG publications thanks to his blatant cheating to improve his character, and now TheMunchkin is known in France as "le Grosbill" (The Bigbill), and creating and/or playing overpowered characters is called "Grosbiller" (to Bigbill).
614* Up until the late sixties, American dictionaries contained the verb "to badogliate" from Italian general Pietro Badoglio, meaning "to betray in a foolish way".
615* In the UsefulNotes/{{Esperanto|TheUniversalLanguage}} movement, to "kabei" means to leave the movement suddenly without warning after having been successful in it, after Kabe, the pen name of Kazimierz Bein, a well-known Esperantist.
616* To "pull a Crater" means to disappear, after New York Judge [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Force_Crater Joseph Force Crater]], who famously disappeared without a trace in 1930.
617* To "pull a Chuck" is Boston-area slang for committing suicide by diving off a bridge, after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Stuart_(murderer) Charles Stuart]], who allegedly murdered his wife in an insurance scheme. He then committed suicide by diving off the Tobin Bridge as the police were closing in on him.
618* "Barbarian" (as well as its adjective spinoff "barbaric") started out as an old Greek appelation for the people of early Anatolian nations that spoke in a language that sounded to Greeks like a sort of "bar-bar" gibberish. Since they found the language uncivilized, the term came to be recognised as slang for an uncivilized or backwards person.
619* In online discussion, "DMCA" and "C&D" are often used as verbs to denote fan works being ScrewedByTheLawyers, deriving from the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act Digital Millennium Copyright Act]] (an American law which is often cited in legal notices by the IP holders, thanks to most prominent affected fan works in the Anglosphere being made by US netizens) and cease-and-desist notices (which IP holders often send out to halt production of fan works).
620[[/folder]]
621
622[[folder:General Politics]]
623* Australians will sometimes refer to "doing a Harold Holt" when talking about making a quick exit without an explanation, a reference to the [[UsefulNotes/AustralianPolitics Australian Prime Minster]] who disappeared while swimming one day and [[NeverFoundTheBody whose body was never located]].
624* In Japan, ''bush-suru'', to mean barfing. ([[UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush Bush Sr.]] once got sick at an official dinner and puked in the Japanese Prime Minister's lap.)
625* In the 1992 U.S. Presidential election, Vice President UsefulNotes/DanQuayle held a debate against UsefulNotes/BillClinton's running mate, UsefulNotes/AlGore. At one point in the debate, Quayle said: "You're pulling a Clinton. You say one thing, then you do another."
626* Swift Boating, named for the "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" who came out in 2004 with a number of dubious stories against John Kerry's military service in UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar. The controversy surrounding the group's authenticity made it a byword for MaliciousSlander.
627* After ''"allegedly"'' performing a certain act on then president UsefulNotes/BillClinton, White House intern Monica Lewinsky's surname became a sexual euphemism.
628* After the late conservative scholar and jurist Robert Bork had his 1987 nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court (by then-president UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan) scuttled by liberal opponents, the verb "[[http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/bork bork]]" entered the political lexicon.
629* United States Senator UsefulNotes/JosephMcCarthy's ruthless and overzealous prosecution of [[RedScare anybody he suspected to be a communist]] caused the term "[=McCarthyism=]" to enter the dictionary to describe a WitchHunt (especially one directed against political opponents) driven by [[MediaScaremongering moral panic]] well beyond any legitimate concern.
630* After House GOP Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost his primary in 2014 to a college professor who had never run for public office before, to be "[[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/05/08/sarah-palin-says-paul-ryan-will-soon-be-cantored/ Cantored]]" became a term for when a high-ranking politician is unseated by an unknown from within their own party.
631* In retaliation for some pretty heinous homophobic stances taken by Senator Rick Santorum, Creator/DanSavage held a contest to come up with an alternative definition of "santorum," ideally "a sex act that would make his big, white teeth fall out of his big, empty head." The winning entry was "the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex." The definition soon came to rival Santorum himself as the top result when googling "Santorum." People even occasionally turned it backwards and referred to the senator as "the frothy mix."
632* During the 2008 US Presidential Election, people began to use the term "Palin", after Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, to describe instances of people responding to a question with an answer wholly unrelated to the topic or with a barely coherent string of verbal nonsense.
633[[/folder]]
634
635[[folder:General History]]
636* The term "mesmerize" comes from Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th century hypnotist.
637* To "pull a [[Creator/HarryHoudini Houdini]]" means to make a fast exit (i.e., disappear), typically a StealthHiBye.
638* For a short time during and after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, Rommel (as in UsefulNotes/ErwinRommel) became a verb in the French language. With the approximate meaning of "crushing one's foes with excessive force."
639* After the Swedish romance scammer Karl Vesterberg used the signature "Sol och Vår" ("Sun and Spring") in his 1916 personal ads, the common Swedish verb for performing a romance scam has been "to sun-and-spring" someone, and a romance scammer is called a "sun-and-springer".
640* One possible origin for the French expression "faire le mariole" (clowning around) comes from an instance of Napoleon reviewing his troops. When ordered to present arms, all did so.... with one BigGuy soldier (named Mariole) opting to do so with a small cannon. The Emperor apparently laughed and coined the phrase.
641* The "Spring and Autumn period" of Chinese history (roughly corresponding to the first half of the Zhou Dynasty) is named after the ''Spring and Autumn Annals'', a chronicle of the kingdom of Lu between 722 and 479 BC.
642* Dead pool boards use the term "Huxley'ed" to describe someone whose death is overshadowed by an even more famous or newsworthy death. The phrase is named after [[Literature/BraveNewWorld Aldous Huxley]], whose death on 22 November 1963 was overshadowed by [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy someone else's death]].
643* The term "boycott" derives from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Boycott Charles Boycott]], a land agent for the Irish estates of an English landlord, who found it difficult to manage both the estate and his personal household when the tenants began systematically shunning and refusing to do business with him.
644* Chilean Spanish has the verb "Davilar" meaning "[[EpicFail to screw up something massively]]". It comes from the surname of Juan Pablo Davila, a stockbroker who cost the company he worked for $31 million by accidentally entering a trade as buy instead of sell, then panicked and tried to recuperate the losses with several more risky trades, resulting in further losses totalling $201 million.
645* "Blaginism", a term for acting in defiance of authority, came from Nikolai Blagin, a Soviet pilot who was blamed for [[https://worldhistory.us/russian-history/the-maxim-gorky-aviations-titanic.php the 1935 crash]] of the ''Maxim Gorky'', [[CoolPlane a massive eight-engine plane]] used as a propaganda piece.
646* Elliot Rodger was a SpreeKiller who in 2014 shot six people dead in Isla Vista, California, having been driven to kill by his hatred of [[IfICantHaveYou attractive women who wouldn't sleep with him]] and the attractive men who did sleep with them. Among other members of the "incel" community, a subculture of [[HeManWomanHater militant misogynists]] who blame women for their lack of romantic success, Rodger became a FolkHero overnight, and within the community, "going ER" became a synonym for going on a killing spree aimed at women.
647* "Torquemada" is sometimes used to denote people with a KnightTemplar mindset, or who are otherwise [[TheFundamentalist obsessively devoted to an ideology]]. Much like "Quisling" sounds sleazy and unscrupulous, [[UsefulNotes/TomasDeTorquemada the Spanish inquisitor]]'s name just sounds threatening and militant ('torque' being a real term meaning force, and 'mada' rhyming with armada).
648* "Cleopatra" is basically synonymous with "sexy exotic queen" because of the HistoricalBeautyUpdate and FemmeFatale reputation that has become so ingrained in the popular perception of UsefulNotes/CleopatraVII.
649* 19th-century undertaker William Banting wrote and published a pamphlet enthusing about the benefits of a low-carb diet. This resulted in Victorian Britain referring to dieting in general as "banting".
650[[/folder]]
651
652[[folder:General Pop Culture]]
653* "Ike Turner" is slang in some places for domestic abuse (for example pulling an "Ike Turner" or "Ike and Tina"), based on the real-life case of Ike and Music/TinaTurner. Similarly, for a while after Music/ChrisBrown was arrested for beating up his then-girlfriend Music/{{Rihanna}}, his name was slang for domestic abuse.
654* After Music/KanyeWest infamously interrupted Music/TaylorSwift as she was accepting an award, "to Kanye" has become synonymous with interrupting someone.
655* To "bogart" a cigarette or joint (usually a joint...) is to hold it for a long time without passing it, referencing the way that Creator/HumphreyBogart would hold a lit cigarette for long periods of time in films without taking a drag. It's expanded to include just about anything that is being hogged.
656* Creator/ChanningTatum participated in a parodic song on the ''Series/JimmyKimmelLive'' called "[[DoubleEntendre Channing All Over Your Tatum]]". He noted how weird it was to be repeating his own name dozens of times.
657* Police [[MirandaRights Mirandize]] a suspect with the "You have the right to remain silent" speech. This has essentially become the accepted legal term as well.
658** This is liable to happen with just about any leading case that becomes important to procedure, although it usually ends up as an attributive before a noun. In Canada, for example, we have ''Gladue'' reports, ''Jordan'' delay, ''Rowbotham'' orders, ''W(D)'' instructions, the rather unsettling ''KGB'' statement (to police)[[note]]those were genuinely the initials of the defendant in the relevant case[[/note]], and many more. Also in Canada, the equivalent of "to mirandize" is "to charter," since the relevant rights are provided for in the ''Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.''
659* In competitive ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' circles, to "C9" is to accidentally leave the objective while you are in the process of winning, resulting in a loss. The origin comes from a tournament in which the team Cloud 9 lost two matches in this manner.
660* In ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'', a ceiling too close to a floor has [[GoodBadBugs certain exploitable properties]]. This was first discovered by a {{speedrun}}ner named Pedro, accordingly, such locations are called "Pedro spots".
661* In ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'', a GoodBadBug resulted in artifacts being constructed with far more materials than normally necessary, with each extra material becoming an extra decoration. The first widely-known result of this bug had the amusingly appropriate name "Planepacked", and thus until the bug was fixed, deliberately exploiting it was referred to as "planepacking".
662* To "Tulfo" in the Philippines (e.g. "ipapa-Tulfo kita", translating to "I'll file a complaint about you to Tulfo!") means to bring an issue to the attention of WebVideo/RaffyTulfo or in some cases his brother Ben Tulfo, who also hosts a similar programme.
663* In the ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' episode "What Is... Cliff Clavin?", [[GameShowAppearance Cliff competed on]] ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'' and, despite having an insurmountable lead, lost after wagering everything on a "Final Jeopardy!" response of "Who are three people that have never been in my kitchen?" Since then, Creator/AlexTrebek, who appeared AsHimself, would warn players not to "pull a Cliff Clavin" (overbet or endanger a likely win) in "Final Jeopardy!".
664* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'':
665** Making [[SoreLoser excuses]] for losing a match has become known as "Johning'' after a player who became infamous for such behavior.
666** There's a grabbing technique that Ice Climbers can use called "Wobbling," named after the player who created the technique, Wobbles.
667* "Buffalaxing" is a term for producing a GagSub of a foreign-language video (usually a music video) with what it sounds like in English. This came from a [=YouTuber=] named Buffalax, who gave this treatment to Indian music videos (particularly known for "Indian Thriller" aka "Girly Man") and Music/DschinghisKhan.
668* "Doing a Ratner" refers to a company ruining its image in an instant. The name comes from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ratner Gerald Ratner]], a British businessman who had attained fortune by selling cheap jewelry, only to destroy his brand by jokingly [[OurProductSucks calling his products "total crap"]] during a speech, leading to the Ratner Group almost instantly losing 500 million pounds in value and alienating its customers.
669* Brazil has the slang verb "to Film/{{Joker|2019}}" (or more specifically, "Coringar") to define delving into SanitySlippage, RageBreakingPoint, and other explosive emotional breakdowns.
670* "Debbie Downer", the recurring ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' character played by Creator/RachelDratch, has since become another term for TheKilljoy or TheEeyore, since Debbie always shares depressing facts or stories in her sketches.
671* Players of ''VideoGame/TouhouLostWord'' have the phrase "getting Sunny Milked" after a low-tier character with a reputation of spooking players during summons. Sunny Milk is also a prankster in canon, causing her to reach MemeticTroll status in favor of other {{Low Tier Letdown}}s.
672* Fans of ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' have begun using the phrase "pulling an Afton" to refer to anyone or anything that sticks around or keeps coming back long after it's worn out its welcome, or wholesale using "getting Aftoned" as a euphemism for HijackedByGanon.
673--> '''[[https://youtu.be/lcGfk7m_M0s?t=1430 Backseat Streams:]]''' Yep, just like in the Monty boss fight, leaving the camera equipped has caused its UI to pull an Afton and just refuse to leave us in peace!
674* ''WebVideo/CinemaSins'', after their take of ''Film/GreenLantern2011'', made a continuous trend of referring to sealing ancient beings/artefacts of power away as 'Parallaxing them'. Mostly with a tone of 'Why didn't you just destroy it, and who in the audience actually believes this would work?'.

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